Grantville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Grantville Historic District, in Grantville, Georgia, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The listing included 225 contributing buildings, a contributing structure, and a contributing site on 192 acres (0.78 km2).”
Wikipedia article Grantville Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Coweta County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Bounded by US 29, LaGrange St., W. Grantville Rd. and the city cemetery, Grantville, 30220
When was it listed? June 1991
Category. district
Census division. Grantville
National Register reference number. 91000772 - 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

268 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 268 fires within 5 miles of Grantville Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 979 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 34 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	146
Arson/incendiarism	34
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Natural	12
Smoking	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
8 September 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-COWETA-005
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	8.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-COWETA-002
6 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-TROUP-010

Every fire recorded in Coweta County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Grantville Historic District: 3 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Mrs J D Moreland's Property	Granite	Prospect
Lone Oak/Post/Wilkes	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Post	Gold	Prospect	Vein
Wilkes	Gold	Prospect	Vein

Every working recorded in Coweta County

Storms near this property

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grantville, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 25 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
March 2011	Hail	Grantville	$6,530,000	Literally dozens of reports of large damaging hail were received from the public across southern Coweta county from Grantville, Moreland, eastward to Senoia. Most of the hail was the size of golf balls, but hail the size of baseballs, tennis balls, and even isolated reports of grapefruit-sized hail were received from the Grantville area eastward to just south of Moreland. Hail decreased in size to half-dollars by the time it reached areas just south of Senoia. Significant accumulations of hail were noted on the ground in the area and much of the region was blanketed with a hail cover for an hour or more. Extensive damage was observed to vehicles and roofs of homes in the area.
March 2013	Hail	Grantville	$1,100,000	The Coweta County Emergency Manager reported golfball sized hail in Grantville.
April 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Grantville	$50,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that the EF1 tornado, which first touched down in north central Troup county, tracked across far southeast Heard county, and then into Coweta county before lifting. The path length of this tornado within Coweta county was slightly over six miles, while the entire tornado path length was approximately 17 miles. The tornado paralleled Corinth Road as it tracked through southwest Coweta county, lifting near the intersection of Joe Brown Road and Corinth Road, approximately seven miles southwest of Newnan or five miles northwest of Grantville. Within Coweta county, damage was confined primarily to thousands of downed trees, and minor damage to outbuildings and fences. One home sustained major damage and one sustained minor damage. Otherwise, no significant structural damage was observed within Coweta county and there were no fatalities or injuries reported anywhere with this tornado.\|\|[04/27-04/28/11: Tornado #8, County #3-3, EF1, Troup-Heard-Coweta, 2011:017].
March 2011	Lightning	Grantville	$50,000	The Coweta County 911 Center reported two lightning-related house fires between Grantville and Moreland in southern Coweta county. No further details or information were provided regarding damages.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$20,000	The Coweta County 911 center reported numerous trees blown down across the county from around Grantville to northeast of Newnan, including along Alexander Road, Colley Street, Happy Valley Circle, Country Club Road, Buddy West Road, Kory Drive, Macedonia Road, Old Atlanta Highway, and in the Willow Creek Subdivision.
June 2002	Hail	Grantville	$20,000	Amateur radio and public reports indicated that quarter size hail fell in the Grantville, Moreland, and Sharpsburg vicinities. The hail was large enough to damage some cars on Interstate 85 near the U.S. 29 highway interchange.
January 1996	Flash Flood	Grantville	$10,000	no account filed
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$7,000	The Coweta County 911 center reported trees and power lines blown down in the Grantville area from near the intersection of Broad Street and Church Street to Bo Bo Banks Road.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$7,000	The Coweta County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down onto power lines on Grandma Branch Road.
February 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$6,000	Tree damage on either side of 1-85 just east of Grantville.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$5,000	The Coweta County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down along Grantville Road and Bradbury Road.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$3,000	Several trees down between hwy 29 and Griffin St East of Grantville.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$3,000	The Times Herald Newspaper of Newnan reported that strong thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down on a home.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$2,000	Em reports 2 trees down near coweta heard rd near norwood dr and corinth rd near smokey rd.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$2,000	Tree fell on powerlines at intersection of Bradbury and Lowry Road.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$2,000	The Coweta County 911 center reported trees blown down along Coweta-Heard Road near Corinth.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$2,000	The Coweta County 911 Center reported that two trees were down in the Grantville area and another tree was down on a power line and telephone cables along Washington Street in Newnan.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$2,000	The Coweta County Fire and Rescue as well as the Coweta County 911 center reported that several trees were down, including some on power lines, between Grantville and Moreland. The most significant damage was in the Moreland area.
January 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$1,000	EM reports tree down at corinth rd and joe brown rd.
January 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$1,000	Tree down on the road near the 500 block of bryant boys rd near Drinnen Ln.
January 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$1,000	Power line down on the road at smokey rd near country ln.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$1,000	Powerlines downed by thunderstorm winds near Pitts Cir and Griffin St.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$1,000	Public report of a tree down at Classic Rd and Lowery Rd northeast of Grantville.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$1,000	Tree reported down near the intersection of W Grantville Rd and Arnold St.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$1,000	Tree down at Mike Powers Rd and W Grantville Rd.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$1,000	The Coweta County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down around the intersection of Griffin Street and Stokes Street.
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$1,000	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$500	The Coweta county 911 center reported that three to four trees were blown down on Corinth road in the extreme southwest part of the county near the Heard/Troup county border.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	$500	Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees in Grantville.
June 2023	Hail	Grantville	-	Report of 1 inch hail by public near hwy 29 in Grantville.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	-	Multiple trees down on homes in Grantville. Trees on homes on Maple Street, Griffin Street and Cedar Street.
June 2023	Hail	Grantville	-	Social media picture of at least golf ball sized hail in Grantville.
November 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Grantville	-	Report of a tree down along Corinth Rd near Bryant Boys Rd.
June 2022	Hail	Grantville	-	Quarter-sized hail reported near intersection of Bo Bo Banks Rd and Allen rd.
March 2011	Funnel Cloud	Grantville	-	The public observed a funnel cloud near Grantville. This was well supported by radar data and a tornado warning was in effect for the area at the time. Doppler indicated rotational velocities were briefly near 50 knots at this time.
March 2003	Hail	Grantville	-	The Coweta county 911 center received reports of penny size hail from just northeast of Grantville to east of Newnan in the Thomas Crossroads area.
May 2002	Hail	Grantville	-	An amateur radio operator relayed a report of quarter size hail.
July 1998	Hail	Grantville	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Grantville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coweta 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	W. A. Brannon Store-Moreland Knitting Mills	5.0 miles	1985
	Gordon-Banks House	7.7 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000772 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Coweta County	All 27 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.