Ludowici Well Pavilion

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Ludowici Well Pavilion is a historic site in Ludowici, Georgia, located in an open public area in the center of town on McQueen Street. The well was constructed in 1907 and supplied drinking water.”
Wikipedia article Ludowici Well Pavilion, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Long County · listed in 1984 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. McQueen St., Ludowici, 31316
When was it listed? September 1984
Category. structure
Census division. Ludowici South
National Register reference number. 84001153 - 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

425 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 425 fires within 5 miles of Ludowici Well Pavilion between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,692 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 133 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	175
Arson/incendiarism	133
Natural	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Railroad operations and maintenance	10
Recreation and ceremony	10
Smoking	9

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
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-LONG-005
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-LONG-008
30 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	5.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Long County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ludowici Well Pavilion: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Morgan Lake Pit	Stone	Producer

Every working recorded in Long County

Storms near this property

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ludowici, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 29 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 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 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down several large trees.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	$5,000	Numerous trees and power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds in Ludowici.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	$2,000	Large oak tree down in yard.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	$750	One large tree and several large tree limbs were reported down across Jones Creek Loop, 5 miles north-northwest of Doctortown, Georgia. Pea sized hail was also reported.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	$500	Thunderstorm winds knocked several trees down within Ludowici.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	Long County dispatch reported two trees down in the county.
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	The Long County Warning Point reported trees down in the area of Hilton Junction.
May 2008	Hail	Ludowici	-	Quarter size hail was reported by a trained weather spotter along the Wayne and Long County line.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	Ludowici police reported damage to sheds and car ports. Damage in Sand Hills subdivision.
October 2005	Flash Flood	Ludowici	-	Heavy rainfall associated with Tropical Storm Tammy washed out Lee Place Road.
October 2005	Hail	Ludowici	-	Quarter size hail fell along Highway 301 northwest of Ludowici.
October 2005	Hail	Ludowici	-	Penny size hail fell along highway 38.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down power lines.
July 2004	Hail	Ludowici	-	Quarter to ping pong ball size hail fell just west of the the Liberty County airport, but in Long county. Wind gust to 50 mph were also reported.
September 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines.
September 2004	Flash Flood	Ludowici	-	Heavy rainfall flooded roads across the county.
September 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees, one of which fell on a house.
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	Several trees and large limbs were down.
December 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	Numerous trees down in and around the town of Ludowici
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	Trees and power lines were down.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	Wind knocked down several trees and large limbs which also brought down some power lines.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	Trees and power lines down.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	Power lines down
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	Several trees and large limbs down.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	Powerlines down.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	Trees down.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	Trees down.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	Trees and large limbs down.
October 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	A couple of trees down.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	Trees and powerlines down.
June 1994	Hail	Ludowici	-	Nickel sized hail covered the ground to the depth of one to two inches in the town of Ludowici.
June 2006	Hail	Ludowici	-	no account filed
March 2005	Hail	Ludowici	-	no account filed
March 2005	Hail	Ludowici	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Ludowici	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Ludowici	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Ludowici	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Ludowici	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Ludowici	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Ludowici	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	no account filed
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludowici	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Long 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
	Long County Courthouse	0.3 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001153 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Long County	All 3 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.