Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
From the record
“Hardman House is a historic house located at 208 Elm Street in Commerce, Georgia. It is locally significant architecturally as a "fine example" in Georgia of the Mediterranean Revival style of architecture applied to a residence.”
Wikipedia article Governor L. G. Hardman House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.88000749- 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
68 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Governor L. G. Hardman House
between 1992 and 2017, burning about 149 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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
42
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Arson/incendiarism
7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Smoking
3
Natural
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Commerce, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 lightning, 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.
Numerous reports of large hail were received from the public across Jackson county. One piece of baseball-sized hail was observed in Jefferson, but most of the hail was quarter to golf ball-sized. Quarter to golf ball-sized hail was observed north of Commerce in the Banks Crossing area, just north of Commerce, and in Jefferson.
The Jackson County 911 Center reported a house fire sparked by lightning outside of Commerce. The house was an old Victorian home that had been converted into apartments. Seven residents escaped without injury, but the house was heavily damaged.
The Athens Banner Herald reported that lightning struck a tree next to a home on State Street in Commerce. The tree subsequently fell onto the roof of the adjacent garage, causing damage to the structure.
The Jackson county 911 center reported that one tree was blown down in Commerce and a utility pole was down on an 18-wheel truck on Interstate-85 just north of Commerce. A few other trees were also down in the same general area.
The Jackson County 911 Center reported trees and power lines down in the Commerce area, including around the intersection of U.S. Highway 441 and State Highway 334.
A spotter for the National Weather Service office in Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina reported that a number of trees were down. Winds were estimated at 70 mph.
The Jackson County 911 Center reported that lightning struck a home on Windmill Drive causing minimal damage to the structure. No fire was observed from this incident.
The Banks County Emergency Management Director also reported flooding in extreme eastern Jackson county near the Banks county line in the Banks Crossing area north of Commerce along Interstate-85. Ridgeway Church Road was closed because of flooding and water was flowing across other roads in the same area. Some individuals had to be rescued from high water in the area. Radar estimated rainfall of 2-4 inches was noted in a 2-3 hour period across this area.
Two separate thunderstorm cells produced severe hail. The first cell occurred south-southeast of Commerce around 710 pm EDT where the public observed nickel-sized hail. The second cell moved along the Banks/Jackson county line north of Commerce where the public observed quarter-sized hail in the Banks Crossing area around 720 pm EDT.
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.
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.
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