Shellman Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Shellman Historic District is a 200 acres (0.81 km2) historic district in Shellman in Randolph County, Georgia which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It included 163 contributing buildings and a contributing site.”
Wikipedia article Shellman Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Randolph 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. Roughly bounded by Dean, Church, Mary Lou, Ward, Pecan and Pine Sts., Shellman, 39886
When was it listed? August 1985
Category. district
Census division. Shellman
National Register reference number. 85001935 - 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Shellman Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 658 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 4 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	87
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Natural	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-RANDOLPH-006
26 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2010	Natural	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-RANDOLPH-012
25 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TERRELL-005
25 September 1996	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-TERRELL-001

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this property

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shellman, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
May 1998	Lightning	Shellman	$100,000	Fire destroyed more than 4,000 tons of peanuts after lightning struck a warehouse at the Locke Farm Center in Shellman.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Shellman	$10,000	A large tree was blown down into a home near Shellman. Monetary damage was estimated.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Shellman	$5,000	Minor structural damage occurred to the back wall of a warehouse.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Shellman	$5,000	The Randolph county 911 dispatch reported that numerous trees were blown down across the county from near Shellman westward to near Springvale. Monetary damage was estimated.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Shellman	$3,000	A few trees and power lines were blown down in the Shellman area.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Shellman	$2,000	Several trees and a power line were blown down in the Shellman area.
February 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Shellman	-	Trees were blown down in the Shellman area.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Shellman	-	A tree was blown down across a road in Shellman.
March 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Shellman	-	Trees were down at Highway 82 just north of Shellman.

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001935 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Randolph 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.
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.