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One of 25 National Register listings published here for Walton County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Bank of Jersey
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Main St., Jersey, 30018
- When was it listed? March 1984
- Category. building
- Census division. Jersey
- National Register reference number. 84001269 - 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
143 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Bank of Jersey between 1992 and 2019, burning about 332 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 9 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 | 75 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| 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 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020WALTON002 |
| 26 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-WALTON-002 |
| 23 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-NEWTON-004 |
| 20 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Storms near this property
16 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jersey, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $20,000 | The Walton County 911 center reported numerous trees and power lines blown down across the county from Jersey to Monroe and Social Circle to Mt. Vernon. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $12,000 | The Walton County 911 Center reported several trees and power lines blown down from Jersey to Social Circle. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $7,000 | Powerlines and several trees down causing some damage to homes in Jersey. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $6,000 | The Walton County 911 center reported trees blown down from around the intersection of Gauntt Road and Lower Jersey Road near the Jersey Community to West Highland Avenue at West Spring Street and South View Drive at Reese Street in Monroe. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $6,000 | The Walton County 911 center reported power lines and multiple trees down across the county including in Social Circle at Alcova Drive and Laurel Lane; on Hickory Grove Church Road and on Stock Road near Nicholasville; and on Sandy Creek Road near Zingara. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $2,000 | Emergency manager reported trees blocking roadway at the intersection of Lower Jersey road and Cornish Mountain Church road. |
| February 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $1,000 | Em reports tree down near jersey social circle rd and dally rd. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $1,000 | Tree down across roadway at the intersection of dally rd and Alcovy. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $1,000 | Tree down near the intersection of Dally Rd and Jersey Social Circle Rd. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $1,000 | Emergency Manager reports tree down along Kraddle Creek Rd. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $1,000 | Tree down at Maughon Rd and Barrett Wood Road. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $1,000 | Emergency manager reported a tree down across roadway near intersection of H D Atha Rd and Jersey Social Circle. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $1,000 | Powerlines down along H D Atha Rd between Jersey Social Circle Rd and Penland Rd. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $1,000 | The Walton County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down on Jersey Covington Road near Cornish Creek. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $250 | The Walton County 911 center reported that one tree was down across a road. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Jersey | - | The Walton County 911 Center received several reports of penny to nickel-sized hail were received from the public. |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samuel H. Brodnax House | 3.4 miles | 1982 | |
| Social Circle Historic District | 6.3 miles | 1980 | |
| Monland Place Historic District | 6.9 miles | 1983 | |
| James Berrien Upshaw House | 6.9 miles | 1986 | |
 | McDaniel-Tichenor House | 7.0 miles | 1980 |
| Monroe and Walton Mills Historic District | 7.0 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 84001269 in Record Group 79. |
| Walton County | All 25 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.