Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
From the record
“Greenville Historic District in Greenville, Georgia is a 250 acres (1.0 km2) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The listing included 209 contributing buildings and 103 non-contributing buildings, two contributing structures, and two contributing sites.”
Wikipedia article Greenville Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Meriwether County · listed in 1990 · category: District.
National Register reference number.90000433- 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
163 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Greenville Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 617 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 14 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
94
Natural
17
Arson/incendiarism
14
Equipment and vehicle use
13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
12
Smoking
6
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Recreation and ceremony
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Greenville Historic District: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mica. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Greenville, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 23 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 3 injuries. 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.
The Meriwether Vindicator of Greenville reported that two men were injured when a tree limb fell on their car during strong thunderstorms with very heavy rain. Both men were treated and released
The Manchester Star Mercury reported that a Greenville woman was injured when a tree fell on the vehicle she was driving during the thunderstorm. The Manchester Public Works Department also reported numerous trees down just north of Manchester.
The Meriwether County 911 Center and Emergency Management Director reported golf ball-sized hail just north of Greenville, while the public reported penny-sized hail near Gay.
Multiple reports of trees blown down around Greenville, with damage reported near the town square. Additional reports of trees and powerlines down along GA Hwy 85 and Greenville Flat Shoals Road, just south of Gay.
The Georgia Department of Transportation reported trees and power lines blown down between Terrell Street and Dogwood Circle along Highway 109 on the west side of Greenville.
The Meriwether County 911 Center reported that several trees were down across the northwest part of the county between Rocky Mount, Lone Oak, and just south to west of Luthersville.
The Meriwether County Emergency Management Director and 911 Center reported that several trees were blown down west of Greenville. Some power lines were also down in the area.
The Meriwether County Emergency Management Director reported that three trees were down between Greenville and Woodbury. Some power outages were noted in the area.
Heavy rainfall and high runoff rates caused Walnut Creek to swell out of its banks, and cover Georgia Highway 18 with water. Radar estimates indicate that six to seven inches occurred over this area in a short period of time.
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.
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.
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