Brinson Family Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Brinson Family Historic District in Brinson, Georgia, United States, is a 14-acre (5.7 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It has six contributing buildings and two other contributing structures.”
Wikipedia article Brinson Family Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Decatur 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 listing

Address. Bainbridge, Wainhurst and Leon Sts., Brinson, 39825
When was it listed? October 1986
Category. district
Census division. Brinson
National Register reference number. 86002677 - 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

242 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Brinson Family Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 807 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 21 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	167
Equipment and vehicle use	33
Arson/incendiarism	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Smoking	5
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
23 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019DECATUR002
22 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019DECATUR001
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-DECATUR-009
17 September 1992	Smoking	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Decatur County

Storms near this property

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brinson, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Brinson	$3,000	Downed trees and power lines reported by Decatur County 911.
November 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Brinson	$2,000	An irrigation pivot flipped near Highway 84 and Highway 310.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Brinson	$2,000	A tree was blown down onto a power line.
November 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Brinson	$1,000	Fence damage occurred in Brinson.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Brinson	$1,000	Numerous downed trees reported by the Decatur County EMS.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Brinson	-	A tree was blown down along Brindon and Cofty Road.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Brinson	-	The Decatur County Sheriff reported numerous pecan trees uprooted.
August 2005	Tornado (F0)	Brinson	-	A small tornado briefly touched down just south of Brinson. It moved north and crossed U.S. Highway 84 near Spring Creek Road. No damage was reported by the public.
February 2000	Hail	Brinson	-	Quarter size hail reported by the Decatur County EMA.

Every storm recorded in Decatur 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 86002677 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Decatur County	All 8 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.