Sumner High School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Sumner High School and Sumner Auditorium, now the Sumner Town Hall is a historic high school building and auditorium in Sumner, Georgia, Worth County, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 27, 1996.”
Wikipedia article Sumner High School and auditorium, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Worth County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 716 Walnut St., Sumner, 31789
When was it listed? September 1996
Category. building
Census division. Poulan
National Register reference number. 96001035 - 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

227 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Sumner High School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 792 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 38 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	143
Arson/incendiarism	38
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	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
5 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WORTH003
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WORTH008
26 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WORTH-004
20 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-WORTH-004
19 September 2015	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-WORTH-003

Every fire recorded in Worth County

Storms near this property

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sumner, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2007	Tornado (EF2)	Sumner	$500,000	An EF-2 tornado touched down on Sumner Lakes Road just south of Sumner. One mobile home was completely destroyed, with the debris blown several hundred yards away. The four occupants inside received warning of the approaching tornado and promptly vacated the home for a reinforced shelter. Of the two dozen structures that were damaged, half were heavily damaged. Numerous utility poles and trees in the path of the tornado were snapped.
February 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumner	$250,000	A mobile home was destroyed and four homes damaged. Numerous downed trees and power lines. A recreational vehicle overturned. Reported by the Worth County Sheriff.
April 2020	Tornado (EF1)	Sumner	$100,000	A brief tornado touched down just southwest of Highway 82, west of Ty Ty, GA where there was minor structural damage as well as widespread trees being uprooted and snapped. The tornado moved northeast and crossed Highway 82 where a member of the public reported seeing it. It then continued northeast with damage reported on Little River Road and Whiddon Mill Road which was consistent with radar signatures. Thank you to Worth County GA Emergency Management officials in their help in collecting damage points and pictures.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumner	$100,000	Trees, power lines and road signs were blown down. Some homes sustained minor roof damage along U.S. Highway 82.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumner	$25,000	A few roofs were blown off homes and trees were down on Ty Ty Sycamore Road.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumner	$5,000	Numerous power outages occurred due to severe storms with downed and sagging power lines.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumner	$5,000	Several trees and power lines down reported by the Colquitt County 911 dispatch.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumner	$3,000	An irrigation system was blown into the roadway on Whiddon Mill Road at Willis Road and there were multiple trees blown down just east of Willis Road.
February 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumner	$3,000	Trees were blown down with hail of unknown size and power outages reported. Monetary damage was estimated.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumner	$2,000	Several power outages occurred as gusty winds from thunderstorms moved through the area.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumner	$2,000	A power line was down along Little River Road.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumner	$2,000	A tree was blown down east of Sylvester with power outages reported.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumner	$1,000	A tree and power line were blown down in Sumner.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumner	$1,000	A power line was blown down east of Sumner.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumner	$1,000	The awning on a store was blown off in Sumner. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
April 2024	Flash Flood	Sumner	-	Hansel Road between Pine Forest Road and Gibbs Road was closed.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumner	-	Several trees were blown down along Highway 82 one mile west of Ty Ty.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumner	-	A tree was blown down onto Little River Road.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumner	-	A tree was blown down near Whiddon Mill Road.
October 1997	Hail	Sumner	-	Dime size hail along Georgia Highway 82 west of Ty Ty near Sumner.
March 2024	Hail	Sumner	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Worth 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

6 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
Possum Poke	2.8 miles	1982
Poulan Library	3.1 miles	2003
US Post Office- Sylvester	6.0 miles	1996
Sylvester Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase)	6.0 miles	2002
Worth County Courthouse	6.1 miles	1980
Worth County Local Building	6.1 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001035 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Worth County	All 8 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.