Jim Smith House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Jim Smith House near Lyons, Georgia is a two-story wood-framed house with vernacular Greek Revival style that was built c.1860. It was home of successful farmer James Henry (Jim) Smith (1828-1899) who owned up to 4,100 acres (1,700 ha) plus a sawmill and a gristmill.”
Wikipedia article Jim Smith House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Toombs County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Smith, Jim, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Rt. 3/Toombs County Rd. 18, Lyons, 30436
When was it listed? August 1989
Category. building
Census division. Cedar Crossing
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 89001213 - 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

288 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 288 fires within 5 miles of Jim Smith House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 880 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 32 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	170
Arson/incendiarism	32
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Natural	19
Recreation and ceremony	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	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
9 September 2019	Natural	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TOOMBS008
30 September 2008	Debris and open burning	7.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2016	Debris and open burning	6.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TOOMBS-013
20 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1993	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-TOOMBS-015

Every fire recorded in Toombs County

Storms near this property

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyons, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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
July 2002	Lightning	Lyons	1 killed	The Advance Progress Newspaper of Vidalia reported that lightning struck and killed a 45-year old man while on a construction site at the Toombs County Middle School on Center Road. The individual was part of a crew of construction workers at the school. While the others had sought shelter in their vehicles during the thunderstorm, the worker killed had returned to the construction site to retrieve some tools. It was while doing this that he was struck and killed by lightning.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyons	$6,000	The Toombs County 911 center reported numerous trees blown down across the county, including in Lyons.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyons	$5,000	Toombs county 911 reported power lines and trees knocked down and an onion shed destroyed. Hail of unknown size also fell.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyons	$3,000	The Toombs County Emergency Management Director reported that at least six trees were down across the county. Several power outages were noted as well.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyons	$3,000	The Toombs County Emergency Management Director reported that a thunderstorm downburst blew down 10 to 20 trees northeast of Lyons. In addition, one home lost about 40 shingles. One tree was also down in the city of Lyons as well.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyons	$2,000	Toombs county 911 reported trees blown down in Lyons, and county-wide power outages.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyons	$1,000	Tree down at intersection of Jones Street and Clifton Avenue.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyons	$1,000	The Toombs County Emergency Management Director reported that three trees were down around Lyons.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyons	$1,000	The Toombs county 911 center reported that several trees were blown down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyons	$1,000	Toombs county 911 reported power lines down on highway 86.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyons	$500	The Toombs County Emergency Management Director reported that two trees were down on Aim Wells Road just off U.S. Highway 1.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyons	$500	The Toombs county 911 center reported that a few trees were blown down.
February 2008	Hail	Lyons	-	The Toombs County 911 Center relayed a report of penny-sized hail east of Lyons.
June 2002	Hail	Lyons	-	The public reported dime size hail on Georgia Highway 178.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyons	-	The Toombs county 911 center reported pea size hail.
July 2001	Flood	Lyons	-	The Toombs county 911 center reported that there was minor flooding of Georgia Highway 152.
May 1999	Hail	Lyons	-	Toombs county 911 reported dime size hail.
June 1997	Hail	Lyons	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Toombs 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 89001213 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Toombs County	All 9 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.