BlockFrom the record
One of 15 National Register listings published here for Banks County · listed in 1996 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Nails Creek Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
The listing
- Address. Jct. of GA 51 and GA 59, Carnesville, 30547
- When was it listed? November 1996
- Category. district
- Also known as. Old Federal Road in Georgia's Banks and Franklin Counties MPS
- Census division. Homer
- National Register reference number. 96001307 - 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
121 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Nails Creek Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 300 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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 | 75 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 20 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-BANKS-002 |
| 6 August 2008 | Natural | 4.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | William Chambers House | 1.2 miles | 1996 |
| Mount Pleasant Historic District | 1.9 miles | 1996 | |
| Kesler Covered Bridge | 4.1 miles | 1975 | |
 | Banks County Jail | 5.4 miles | 1982 |
 | Hebron Church, Cemetery, and Academy | 5.8 miles | 1985 |
| Homer Historic District (Boundary Increase) | 5.8 miles | 1993 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 96001307 in Record Group 79. |
| Banks County | All 15 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.