Martin Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Stephens County · listed in 1995 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Along both sides of GA 17 and the Norfolk Southern RR tracks, Martin, 30557
When was it listed? July 1995
Category. district
Census division. Martin-Avalon
National Register reference number. 95000825 - 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

346 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 346 fires within 5 miles of Martin Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 525 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 70 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	188
Arson/incendiarism	70
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Railroad operations and maintenance	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Smoking	10
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	2

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 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-FRANKLIN-006
5 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FRANKLIN-012
29 September 2003	Smoking	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-FRANKLIN-002
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FRANKLIN-010
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FRANKLIN-009
20 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Stephens County

Storms near this property

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Martin, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2000: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stephens 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
	Eastanollee Auditorium	5.4 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000825 in Record Group 79.
Stephens County	All 11 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.