Walnut Hill Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Walnut Hill Historic District in Carnesville, Georgia consists of several small farm complexes along Old Federal Road making a historic rural linear community. It includes farmhouses of types that are common for rural Georgia from c.1850 to c. 1910 and various outbuildings.”
Wikipedia article Walnut Hill Historic District (Carnesville, Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 1996 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. GA 51, approximately 1 mi. NW of jct. with I-85, Carnesville, 30521
When was it listed? November 1996
Category. district
Also known as. Old Federal Road in Georgia's Banks and Franklin Counties MPS
Census division. Carnesville
National Register reference number. 96001296 - 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

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Hill Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 266 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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	77
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	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
3 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FRANKLIN-011
28 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020FRANKLIN005
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FRANKLIN-008
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020FRANKLIN004
21 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020FRANKLIN003
20 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this property

54 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carnesville, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 35 thunderstorm wind, 15 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
October 2015	Heavy Rain	Carnesville	$25,000	Public reported multiple trees down in the Carnesville area due to a combination of saturated soil and gusty winds. One tree fell on a home on Highway 59.
September 2004	Tornado (F1)	Carnesville	$25,000	This tornado touched down near Carnesville, then tracked northwest toward Red Hill, damaging a few homes, as well as numerous trees and power lines along its 5-mile track.
November 2003	Tornado (F0)	Carnesville	$5,000	This weak tornado caused damage to the roof of one building and blew the roof off an outbuilding along highway 106. Numerous trees and large tree limbs were also blown down along its intermittent 4-mile path.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	$2,000	Numerous trees were blown down and a tin roof was torn off of a home.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	$1,000	Some trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Public reported trees blown down in Carnesville and in Lavonia.
February 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	County comms reported a few trees blown down with a couple falling on power lines in Carnesville and vicinity.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	County comms reported multiple trees blown down in the Carnesville area.
August 2021	Hail	Carnesville	-	Co-op observer reported quarter size hail in Carnesville.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Public reported multiple trees uprooted in the 300 block of Railroad Bridge Road.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Dept of highways reported trees blown down and blocking Commerce Rd as well as Atkinson Bridge Rd.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	County comms reported multiple trees blown down between Carnesville and Lavonia.
March 2017	Hail	Carnesville	-	Public reported 3/4 inch hail in the Carnesville area.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	County comms reported two trees blown down in the Carnesville area.
June 2015	Hail	Carnesville	-	Public reported quarter size hail in the Carnesville area.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	EM reported multiple large tree limbs and some power lines blown down in Carnesville.
January 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	A tree was blown down on Rock Pillar Rd near highway 326 and another tree down on Careytown Rd near highway 106.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	A couple trees were blown down in the Carnesville area.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Trees were blown down on Harrison Bridge Rd between 3 and 4 miles south of Carnesville and along Atkinson Bridge Rd in the same area.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	A tree was blown down on Jackson Bridge Rd about 3 miles east southeast of Carnesville.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Three large trees were blown down.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Trees blown down on Hayes Rd, highway 320, and highway 106.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Several trees were blown down along I-85 from mile markers 160 to 169.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	County comms reported the roof blown off a home.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Trees blown down.
January 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Trees down, scattered across the county.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Trees and power lines down from the Red Hill community to Carnesville.
April 2005	Hail	Carnesville	-	Near the Stephens County line.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Quite a few trees down in locations in and around Carnesville.
July 2005	Flash Flood	Carnesville	-	Several roads flooded, mainly near creek crossings in eastern portions of the county. Flooded roads included Black Snake, Bear Creek, Seymore, Aderhold and Rice Mill.
November 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Trees fell onto a cell tower along the Franklin/Banks county line, disrupting service.
November 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Trees blown down on highway 145 north of town, and on highway 17 along the Hart county line.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Large tree limbs were blown down on Aikens Bridge Rd.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Large tree limbs were blown down on highway 105 near the Stephens County line.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	A couple of trees were blown down.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Several large trees were blown down.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Some trees were blown down in the Canon area.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Trees were blown down near the Banks County line.
May 2003	Hail	Carnesville	-	Hail fell along highway 106.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	A few trees were blown down.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Several trees were blown down.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	Sheriff's department reported trees and power lines down across the county.
March 2011	Hail	Carnesville	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Carnesville	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Carnesville	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Carnesville	-	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Carnesville	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Carnesville	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Carnesville	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Carnesville	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Carnesville	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Carnesville	-	no account filed
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnesville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Hamilton Historic District	0.9 miles	1996
McConnell Historic District	0.9 miles	1996
Bellamy Historic District	1.7 miles	1996
John R. and Mary Bond Bond House	2.0 miles	1996
Strange-Duncan House	2.4 miles	1996
Brown-Kennedy House	2.4 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001296 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin County	All 43 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.