Richland Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Richland Historic District is a historic district in Richland, Georgia that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1986. It includes the historic commercial center of Richland and residential areas around it.”
Wikipedia article Richland Historic District (Richland, Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Stewart County · listed in 1986 · 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. Roughly bounded by Ponder, Harmony, Broad and Olemen, and Wali Sts., Richland, 31825
When was it listed? May 1986
Category. district
Census division. Richland
National Register reference number. 86001021 - 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

234 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 234 fires within 5 miles of Richland Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 735 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 16 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	136
Equipment and vehicle use	33
Arson/incendiarism	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Smoking	8
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021STEWART004
30 September 2019	Natural	7.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020STEWART003
26 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	8.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1996	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-STEWART-007

Every fire recorded in Stewart County

Storms near this property

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richland, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
March 2007	Tornado (EF1)	Richland	$400,000	A storm survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia concluded that an EF1 tornado touched down just southwest of Richland in northeast Stewart county, traveled across the downtown area of Richland and lifted approximately one mile northeast of Richland. The tornado traveled a path of approximately 1.5 miles with a maximum path width of 250 yards. Around 50 homes and businesses sustained damage in the city of Richland. One commercial building at the intersection of Broad and Harris streets was destroyed when the exterior brick wall collapsed. The Harmony Baptist Church on Harmony and Ponder Streets, built in 1838, was also destroyed. Only two walls were left standing. A tractor-trailer at the intersection of U.S. Highway 280 and Georgia Highway 520 was lifted and dropped by the tornado causing the trailer to collapse and split in the center. In addition, a number of trees and power lines were down throughout the Richland area.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Richland	$6,000	The Stewart County Emergency Manager reported trees and power poles blown down along Highway 520 in Richland.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Richland	$5,000	The Stewart County 911 center reported several trees blown down in the Richland area.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Richland	$5,000	The Lumpkin County 911 Center reported that many trees and several power lines were down between Lumpkin and Richland and also along Georgia Highways 38C and 39 in the western and southwestern part of the county between Florence Marina State Park and Lumpkin. Several power outages were observed in the area as well.
December 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Richland	$3,000	The Stewart county emergency manager reported that power lines were down and there was debris on one of the roads which passes through the Hannahatchee Creek Wildlife Management Area (WMA). It was initially believed to have been a tornado, but there was no confirmation of this by the National Weather Service, local, or state emergency management personnel.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Richland	$1,000	The Stewart County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down at the intersection of Lamar Street and Meyer Street.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Richland	-	Emergency manager reported powerlines down in Richland, near Nicholson St and Richland Bypass.
June 2006	Hail	Richland	-	The public reported penny-sized hail.
May 1998	Hail	Richland	-	Dime size hail was reported in Richland by the sheriff's office.

Every storm recorded in Stewart 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
Smith-Alston House	0.3 miles	1980
Dr. Thomas B. Miller House	0.3 miles	1988
Nathaniel Prothro Plantation	1.0 miles	1985
Mathis House	7.9 miles	1982
Bush-Usher House	7.9 miles	1982
Dr. Miller's Office	7.9 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001021 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stewart County	All 26 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.