Kingsland Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Kingsland Commercial Historic District is a 2 acres (0.81 ha) historic district in Kingsland, Georgia which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.”
Wikipedia article Kingsland Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Camden County · listed in 1994 · 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 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Area surrounding S. Lee St., between King and William Sts., Kingsland, 31548
When was it listed? March 1994
Category. district
Census division. Kingsland
National Register reference number. 94000186 - 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

336 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 336 fires within 5 miles of Kingsland Commercial Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 662 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 84 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	106
Arson/incendiarism	84
Misuse of fire by a minor	51
Natural	28
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Recreation and ceremony	12
Smoking	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CAMDEN-045
15 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CAMDEN-010
6 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020CAMDEN003
4 August 2006	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Camden County

Storms near this property

60 of 105 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingsland, the town this property stands in, in 105 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 56 thunderstorm wind, 25 hail, 12 heavy rain, 7 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2023	Lightning	Kingsland	1 hurt	Lightning struck a home in the Meadows subdivision west of Kingland and cause minor injuries and a house fire. The number of injured was unknown. The extent of fire damage to the home was unknown.
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$10,000	Roof was torn off a church along SR-40.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$5,000	Several large trees were downed by thunderstorm winds along Georgia Highway 40.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$3,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$3,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$3,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down on peoples road.
May 2012	Lightning	Kingsland	$3,000	A house was struck by lightning at 33 Cooner Road in Kingsland. A small fire started in a wooded area. The cost of damage was estimated.
June 2010	Lightning	Kingsland	$3,000	A structural fire was started by lightning. The fire was ongoing at the time of the report. The event time was based on radar, and the cost of damage was estimated.
March 2000	Hail	Kingsland	$3,000	Minor vehicle damage.
March 2000	Hail	Kingsland	$3,000	Minor vehicle damage.
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$3,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$2,500	Large trees were blown down.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$2,500	Large trees an power lines were blown down.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$2,500	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$2,000	Large trees and power lines down on Springhill Road.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$2,000	Large trees were blown down on the Camden County High School property.
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$2,000	no account filed
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
January 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$1,500	Large trees were blown down.
November 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$500	A tree was blown down on the westside of Kingsland. The cost of debris removal was estimated.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$200	A tree was blown down across Highway 17 near the Blue Ridge on the Camden County side. The time of damage was based on radar. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$10	A spotter driving southbound on Interstate 95 near Laurel Island Parkway reported that thunderstorm winds push his vehicle off of the road. The spotter reported a 'potential' tornado. There was not other damage reported in this area. The cost of damage was not reported, but it was estimated for this event to be included in Storm Data.
May 2025	Hail	Kingsland	-	Penny sized hail reported in Kingsland \| Georgia.
August 2025	Heavy Rain	Kingsland	-	Private Weather Station Roberts Suburban Farm - KGAKINGS108 reported 2.07 inches of rainfall in the past hour.
August 2025	Heavy Rain	Kingsland	-	A personal weather station Roberts Suburban Farm - KGAKINGS108 reported 4 inches of rainfall. Rain began around 1250 PM EDT. Surrounding sites measured 2 to 4 inches.
August 2024	Flood	Kingsland	-	Camden county EM reported localized flooding \| in flood-prone areas. Public reported later \| that US 17 near St. Marys river was flooded \| and appeared impassable.
August 2024	Heavy Rain	Kingsland	-	Daily storm total rainfall of 4.69 inches was measured just south of Kingsland. Most of the rainfall occurred during the morning of 8/23.
August 2023	Funnel Cloud	Kingsland	-	A funnel cloud was observed.
September 2023	Heavy Rain	Kingsland	-	The daily measured rainfall at the Camden County EOC surpassed 5 inches around 6:13 pm.
July 2021	Heavy Rain	Kingsland	-	A mesonet station 4 miles WSW of Kingsland measured 5.95 inches of rainfall.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	Power line was blown down at the intersection of Colleran Road and Highway 17.
July 2019	Heavy Rain	Kingsland	-	A gauge measured a daily storm total of 2.14 inches.
December 2018	Hail	Kingsland	-	Quarter size hail was reported in Kingsland.
May 2017	Hail	Kingsland	-	Half dollar size hail was reported in Kingsland.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	A spotter estimated wind gusts of 60-70 mph. A lot of large tree branches were blown down along Royal Circle.
May 2017	Hail	Kingsland	-	Quarter to dime size hail was reported on Camellia Drive.
May 2017	Hail	Kingsland	-	Quarter to dime size hail was reported in Kingsland.
May 2017	Hail	Kingsland	-	Nickel size hail was reported in Kingsland near Royal Circle.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	A wind gust to 60 mph was measured.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	A tree was blown down across North Camden Street in Kingsland. The time of damage was based on radar.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	A spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	Power lines were blown down in Kingsland.
August 2013	Funnel Cloud	Kingsland	-	A spotter reported a funnel cloud near exit 7 along Interstate 95 north of Kingsland.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	Power lines were blown down in Kingsland.
May 2013	Heavy Rain	Kingsland	-	The emergency manager reported 4.25 inches of rainfall occurred near Kingsland.
May 2013	Hail	Kingsland	-	Pea to penny size hail was reported.
June 2012	Heavy Rain	Kingsland	-	A former NWS employee measured 5.70 inches of rainfall within 24 hours. The 48 rainfall total at his location thus far was 11.70 inches.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	Trees were blown down in the Browntown area.
June 2011	Hail	Kingsland	-	Nickel size hail was reported in Kingsland.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	Trees and power lines were blown down at Exit 7 off of Interstate 95 in Kingsland. The time if damage was based on radar imagery.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	Trees were blown down in Kingsland.
September 2011	Heavy Rain	Kingsland	-	Locally heavy rainfall produced minor street flooding of low lying areas. Standing water up to 3 inches deep was reported along State Road 40 and U.S. Highway 17 in Kingsland.

Every storm recorded in Camden 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

1 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
	John Houstoun McIntosh Sugarhouse	6.7 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000186 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Camden County	All 12 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.