Cavender's Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Cavender's Store, which has also been known as Edwards' Store and The Brick, in Villanow, Georgia, is believed to be the oldest freestanding country store in the state of Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.”
Wikipedia article Cavender's Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Walker County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of GA 201 and GA 136, SW corner, Villanow, 30728
When was it listed? March 1992
Category. building
Census division. Villanow
National Register reference number. 92000143 - 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

313 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 313 fires within 5 miles of Cavender's Store between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,538 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 95 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	147
Arson/incendiarism	95
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Recreation and ceremony	16
Natural	11
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	JOHNS MTN
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WALKER-008
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021WALKER001
29 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	not named
26 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cavender's Store: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Naomi Area	Iron	Past Producer	Stratabound Concordant
	Sugar Valley Land Co Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Walker County

Storms near this property

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Villanow, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 hail. 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
April 2006	Hail	Villanow	-	The public reported penny to nickel-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Walker 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 92000143 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Walker County	All 16 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.