Irvin General Merchandise Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Habersham County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Irvin St., Cornelia, 30531
When was it listed? July 1984
Category. building
Census division. Cornelia
National Register reference number. 84001113 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

225 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Irvin General Merchandise Store between 1992 and 2020, burning about 325 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 37 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	122
Arson/incendiarism	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Smoking	7
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BANKS-001
12 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HABERSHAM-013
6 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-HABERSHAM-001
3 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-HABERSHAM-001
29 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Habersham County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Irvin General Merchandise Store: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
J.P.Fort Property	Manganese	Past Producer	Residual
Piedmont College Farm	Iron	Past Producer	Residual
Habersham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Stamborough Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Habersham County

Storms near this property

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cornelia, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 13 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1994	Tornado (F1)	Cornelia	$500,000	A tornado touched down and destroyed one brick home, three mobile homes, one business and moderately damaged three additional homes. The three homes moderately damaged suffered primarily roof and glass damage. Also, several trees were snapped midway from the crown and numerous power lines were downed from the tornadic winds.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Cornelia	$100,000	Damage, reported as moderate to major, to 8 buildings, mainly around the Lakeview Heights section between Cornelia and Mt Airy. Numerous trees were either uprooted or had their tops blown out. Several trees fell on homes and power lines.
February 1997	Tornado (F1)	Cornelia	$100,000	no account filed
September 2004	Tornado (F1)	Cornelia	$2,000	This tornado blew down numerous trees and power lines along its 2-mile track.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Cornelia	$1,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Cornelia	$500	A few large trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
April 2025	Hail	Cornelia	-	County comms reported quarter size hail in the town of Cornelia.
June 2025	Hail	Cornelia	-	Public reported quarter size hail.
April 2021	Hail	Cornelia	-	Public reported lots of 3/4 inch hail between Mt Airy and Demorest.
March 2017	Hail	Cornelia	-	Radio station reported quarter size hail.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Cornelia	-	County comms reported trees blown down on Locke Rd and on Chase Rd on the north side of Cornelia.
May 2014	Hail	Cornelia	-	Public reported up to half dollar size hail near Alto.
May 2014	Hail	Cornelia	-	Multiple public reports of dime to nickel size hail were received from the Alto area, including one report on Nantucket Dr (6 WSW Cornelia).
July 2009	Flash Flood	Cornelia	-	Flooding along South Fork Mud Creek caused water to pool to waist-depth on Hoyt St in Cornelia.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cornelia	-	Trees were blown down in the Cornelia area.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Cornelia	-	A large tree, some large limbs, and power lines were blown down between Cornelia and Mt Airy.
January 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Cornelia	-	Four to five large pine trees blown down on Crane Mill Rd. Also, power lines were blown down in Mt Airy and in Cornelia.
February 2005	Hail	Cornelia	-	Mainly dime sized hail with a few larger stones.
July 2005	Lightning	Cornelia	-	Lightning struck a building, igniting a fire that gutted the building.
July 2005	Hail	Cornelia	-	Hail ranged in size from quarters to golfballs.
November 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Cornelia	-	A few trees down in and around Mt. Airy and Cornelia.
September 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Cornelia	-	A couple of trees were blown down.
June 2011	Hail	Cornelia	-	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Cornelia	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Cornelia	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Cornelia	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Cornelia	-	no account filed
October 1997	Flash Flood	Cornelia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Habersham County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Cornelia Commercial Historic District	under 500 feet	2022
Loudermilk Boarding House	0.2 miles	2001
Cornelia Community House	0.5 miles	1982
Chenocetah Fire Tower	1.3 miles	1984
Lawton Place	1.6 miles	2009
Pyle-Davis House	3.8 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001113 in Record Group 79.
Habersham County	All 37 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.