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Demorest Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Demorest Commercial Historic District is a 2 acres (0.81 ha) historic district in Demorest, Georgia which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The listing included seven contributing buildings.”

Wikipedia article Demorest Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Habersham County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

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 7 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Georgia St. and Central Ave., Demorest, 30535
  • When was it listed? October 1989
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Cornelia
  • National Register reference number. 89001713 - 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

265 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 265 fires within 5 miles of Demorest Commercial Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 313 acres in total. 6 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 burning169
Arson/incendiarism32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking9
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1997Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-HABERSHAM-013
9 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2010Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-HABERSHAM-001
4 August 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-HABERSHAM-008

Every fire recorded in Habersham County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Demorest Commercial Historic District: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Manganese, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clarksville District Kyn OccurrenceKyanitePast Producer1932
H. WoodsGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
J.P.Fort PropertyManganesePast ProducerResidual
Piedmont College FarmIronPast ProducerResidual
Habersham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Habersham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stamborough QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Habersham County

Storms near this property

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Demorest, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008LightningDemorest$100,000Lightning ignited a house fire, causing extensive damage.
June 2023HailDemorest-Public reported up to quarter size hail just east of Demorest.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindDemorest-County comms reported multiple trees blown down around Demorest.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindDemorest-Trees were down from south of Clarkesville to the Lathan Rd area.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindDemorest-Trees down.
June 2011HailDemorest-no account filed
August 2005HailDemorest-no account filed
April 2003HailDemorest-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindDemorest-no account filed
March 1996Funnel CloudDemorest-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Habersham 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Pyle-Davis House0.1 miles2003
Demorest Women's Club0.2 miles2008
McMillan-Garrison House3.1 miles1982
Robert McMillan House3.2 miles1982
South Washington Street Historic District3.2 miles1982
Haywood English Family Log House3.3 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89001713 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Habersham CountyAll 37 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.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • 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.