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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1989 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Commerce Commercial Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Line, State, Cherry, Sycamore and Broad Sts., Commerce, 30529
- When was it listed? January 1989
- Category. district
- Census division. Commerce
- National Register reference number. 88003226 - 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
66 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Commerce Commercial Historic District between 1992 and 2017, burning about 145 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 | 41 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-BANKS-003 |
| 26 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-JACKSON-004 |
| 11 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-BANKS-002 |
| 5 August 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 July 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 July 1993 | Smoking | 5.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Storms near this property
25 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Hail | Commerce | $370,000 | 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. |
| February 2012 | Lightning | Commerce | $150,000 | 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. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Commerce | $75,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked over trees as well as the gate-ticket building at the Atlanta Dragway. A gate was also destroyed. |
| August 2010 | Lightning | Commerce | $25,000 | 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. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Commerce | $25,000 | The public reported that a number of trees were blown down throughout the county. One tree fell on and damaged a truck in Commerce. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Commerce | $15,000 | 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. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Commerce | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked down two large trees as well as a 100 foot by 20 foot wall. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Commerce | $10,000 | 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. |
| June 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Commerce | $5,000 | A short lived and weak tornado touched down along U.S. Highway 441 and downed several pine trees and power lines before dissipating. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Commerce | $3,000 | 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. |
| June 2011 | Lightning | Commerce | $2,000 | 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. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Commerce | $1,000 | Tree reported down on a home near Spring St and Willow St. |
| November 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Commerce | $1,000 | Report from the emergency manager of trees and power lines down near tara place in commerce, ga. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Commerce | $1,000 | Tree and powerlines down at Hwy 98 and Hwy 441. |
| June 2006 | Flood | Commerce | $1,000 | 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. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Commerce | $500 | The Jackson county 911 center reported that a couple of trees had been blown down. |
| November 2010 | Lightning | Commerce | $250 | A CoCoRaHS observer reported that a nearby lightning strike damaged his outdoor Christmas holiday lighting. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Commerce | - | A tree came down on a home on North Bowden Street. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Commerce | - | The public observed quarter-sized hail near Commerce. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Commerce | - | 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. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Commerce | - | The public reported golf ball-sized hail. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Commerce | - | The public reported half-dollar size hail. |
| April 1997 | Hail | Commerce | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Commerce | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Commerce | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seaborn M. Shankle House | 0.1 miles | 1979 | |
| Governor L. G. Hardman House | 0.2 miles | 1988 | |
| Williamson-Maley-Turner Farm | 5.3 miles | 1995 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88003226 in Record Group 79. |
| Jackson County | All 14 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.