Cunningham-Coleman House

Built in 1830 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Cunningham-Coleman House, in Jefferson County, Georgia near Wadley, Georgia, was built in 1830. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.”
Wikipedia article Cunningham-Coleman House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1830, Greek Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. SE of Wadley, Wadley, 30477
When was it listed? September 1984
Category. building
Census division. Wadley
When was it built? 1830
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 84001119 - 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Cunningham-Coleman House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,133 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 19 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	93
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Arson/incendiarism	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Natural	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Smoking	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
9 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2019	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020EMANUEL010
20 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-JEFFERSON-011
17 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-EMANUEL-015
15 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-JEFFERSON-025
14 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-EMANUEL-018

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wadley, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 4 injuries. 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
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	4 hurt	The Jefferson County Emergency Manager reported trees down along Clarks Mill Road near and on East Railroad Street in Wadley.
September 2011	Hail	Wadley	$45,000	The public observed golf ball-sized hail just south of Wadley in the far southern part of the county.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds blew trees down on house.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	$7,000	The 911 call center reported 7 trees down in Wadley, GA.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	$3,000	The Jefferson County 911 Center reported that over a dozen trees were down across the eastern and southeastern part of the county.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	$3,000	The Jefferson county 911 center reported that trees were knocked down on Moxley-Bartow Road.
January 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	$2,000	The Georgia State Patrol reported that several trees were down on U.S. Highway 1 just wouth of Wadley.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	$2,000	The Jefferson County 911 center reported that trees were down.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	$2,000	Several trees were blown down and there were power outages near Wadley.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	$1,500	Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees southeast of Wadley.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	$1,000	The Jefferson County 911 Center reported a tree blown down on North Main Street in Wadley.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	$1,000	no account filed
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	$250	Law enforcement reported a tree down near Highway 1.
August 2008	Hail	Wadley	-	An officer with the Wadley Police Department observed penny-sized hail in the Wadley area.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	-	The Jefferson county 911 center reported that a number of trees had been blown down.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	-	The Wadley Fire and Police Department reported that one tree was down.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Bartow Historic District	7.7 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001119 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 5 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.
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.