Maysville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Maysville Historic District in Maysville, Georgia is a 170 acres (69 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article Maysville Historic District (Maysville, Georgia), 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Along E. Main, W. Main and Homer Sts., Maysville, 30558
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. district
National Register reference number. 85002203 - 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

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Maysville Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 207 acres in total. None 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	41
Arson/incendiarism	18
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
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
7 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-JACKSON-004
25 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-BANKS-001
21 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	18 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 July 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 June 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2000-JACKSON-029

Every fire recorded in Banks County

Storms near this property

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maysville, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
August 2005	Flash Flood	Maysville	$175,000	The Banks County Emergency Management Director reported flash flooding along Grove Creek and Hickory Creek at Georgia Highway 98. Two homes were flooded and the residents had to be relocated. Hembree and Hickory Creek Roads were flooded and closed. Rainfall of four to five inches fell across the southern portions of Banks county between Maysville and Homer during the late morning and early afternoon hours.
March 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$4,000	The Banks County Emergency Manager reported that an old chicken house and a barn sustained minor damage from strong winds along Carson Segars Road. Several small trees were blown down as well.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$2,000	EM reports two trees down at hwy 98 near Quail Rd and Grove Level Rd near N Mangum Bridge Rd.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$1,500	The Banks County 911 Center reported that several trees were blown down across the Maysville area, including Gillsville Road and Highway 98.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$1,000	Tree down on the roadway near the intersection or Ridgeway Rd and Mintz Rd.
September 2010	Hail	Maysville	-	The Jackson County 911 Center relayed a report of quarter-sized hail in the Maysville area long the Banks county line. Radar data suggests that similar-size hail likely continued eastward toward Banks Crossing.

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

6 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
Turk Family Farm	3.0 miles	2003
Gillsville Historic District	5.8 miles	1985
Homer Historic District	6.7 miles	1985
Banks County Courthouse	6.7 miles	1980
Homer Historic District (Boundary Increase)	6.8 miles	1993
Banks County Jail	7.1 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002203 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.