Webb Family Farm

Built in 1870. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Sumter County · listed in 1985 · category: District · built in 1870.

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

The listing

Address. US 19, Sumter, 31787
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. district
Census division. Americus
When was it built? 1870
National Register reference number. 85001968 - 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

193 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Webb Family Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 656 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 18 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	31
Arson/incendiarism	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Natural	11
Smoking	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Recreation and ceremony	4
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
7 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021SUMTER001
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	8.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-SUMTER-021
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	4.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020LEE006
28 September 2003	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-SUMTER-010

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this property

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sumter, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Sumter	$50,000	An National Weather Service survey team found that an EF0 tornado with a maximum path width of 100 yards and maximum winds of 74 MPH crossed into Sumter County from Lee County east of Highway 377 in a marshy area moving northeast. The tornado crossed RW Jones Road where 2 houses sustained minor roof damage. Further northeast, trees were downed along Wilson Battle Road and Brady Road before the tornado ended near Bone Road. No injuries were reported. [05/23/17: Tornado #1, County #2/2, EF-0, Lee, Sumter, 2017:072].
March 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumter	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Liberty Hall	3.8 miles	1980
Morgan Farm	4.0 miles	1998
Newman McBain House	7.2 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001968 in Record Group 79.
Sumter County	All 16 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.