Gillsville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Gillsville Historic District is a 54 acres (22 ha) historic district in Gillsville, Georgia which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The listing included 25 contributing buildings and a contributing structure.”
Wikipedia article Gillsville Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Banks County · listed in 1985 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. GA 52, Gillsville, 30543
When was it listed? August 1985
Category. district
National Register reference number. 85001933 - 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

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Gillsville Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 296 acres in total. 1 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	120
Arson/incendiarism	19
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	1

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
6 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	5.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-HALL-006
7 August 1995	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1993	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Banks County

Storms near this property

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gillsville, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillsville	1 killed, $30,000	The Banks County Emergency Management Director reported that more than a dozen trees were down across the county. A number of trees were down in the western part of the county along Georgia Highway 51 and Hickory Flat Road between Gillsville and Homer, and in the eastern part of the county on Georgia Highway 51 between U.S. Highway 441 and the Franklin county line. A 70 year-old male was killed on Rock Springs Road, approximately four miles northwest of Homer, when a tree fell on his home. He was killed instantly when the tree fell on the bedroom portion of his mobile home.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillsville	$6,000	The Banks County Emergency Manager reported multiple trees blown down west of Homer on Carson Segars Road near Highway 323.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillsville	$5,000	The Banks County Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines blown down in the Gillsville area from Herbert Segars Road to around the intersection of Highway 51 and John Morris Road.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillsville	$2,000	EM reports two trees down near Welborn Rd near Hickory Level Creek and Queen Rd between hwy 323 and Carson Segars Rd.
April 2009	Hail	Gillsville	-	The Banks County 911 Center relayed a report of nickel-sized hail southeast of Lula.
April 2009	Hail	Gillsville	-	The public observed penny-sized hail near Homer. The thunderstorm producing this hail tracked east from Hall county, crossing into Banks county near Lula. The main part of the storm moved east between Homer and Hollingsworth, then continued east to the Franklin county border east of Hollingsworth. Hail of at least penny-size likely fell along the path of the thunderstorm according to radar data and reports from Hall county immediately adjacent to the west.

Every storm recorded in Banks 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

2 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
	Turk Family Farm	5.5 miles	2003
	Maysville Historic District	5.8 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001933 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Banks County	All 15 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.