Comer Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1995 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly, Main St. from Forest Ave. to Laurel Ave., GA 72 from Oak St. past GA 98, and GA 98 from GA 72 past Paoli St., Comer, 30629
When was it listed? November 1995
Category. district
Census division. Comer
National Register reference number. 95001378 - 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

217 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 217 fires within 5 miles of Comer Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 419 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 26 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	123
Arson/incendiarism	26
Smoking	16
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Natural	9
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
30 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	5.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Madison 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 Comer Historic District: 3 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
J. Threlkeld Placer	Gold	Prospect	Placer
O. Threlkeld Placer	Gold	Prospect	Placer
Smith Placer	Gold	Past Producer	Stream Placer
Webb Placer	Gold	Prospect	Placer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Comer, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Comer	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked over two tin chicken houses. A nearby barn also suffered roof damage. 37,000 baby chicks were left homeless.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Comer	$4,000	The Madison County Emergency Management Director reported that at least seven trees were down across the eastern part of the county. One tree was down on a power line near Carlton. Two trees were down across Georgia Highway 191 east of Danielsville, two more trees were down across Georgia Highway 98 east of Danielsville, and two more trees were down across Georgia Highway 172, just north of Paoli. Pea-sized hail was also observed with this thunderstorm.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Comer	$2,000	The Madison County 911 Center reported that eight trees were blown down in the Comer area.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Comer	$500	The Madison County 911 center reported trees down in Comer.
June 2000	Funnel Cloud	Comer	-	The Madison county 911 center reported a public sighting of a funnel cloud northwest of Comer near the intersection of Georgia Highway 98 and Georgia Highway 172. This report was confirmed by the Deputy Sheriff.
April 1998	Hail	Comer	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Comer	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Paoli Historic District	2.7 miles	2002
Colbert Historic District	5.2 miles	1984
Colbert School	5.3 miles	2001
Madison County Courthouse	6.9 miles	1980
Crawford W. Long Childhood Home	7.1 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001378 in Record Group 79.
Madison County	All 6 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.