Built in 1922. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
From the record
“The Tennille Woman's Clubhouse, at 132 Smith St. in Tennille, Georgia, was built in 1922. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.”
Wikipedia article Tennille Woman's Clubhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1922.
National Register reference number.98000815- 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
403 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 403 fires within 5 miles of Tennille Woman's Clubhouse
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,016 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 30 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
208
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
41
Equipment and vehicle use
35
Arson/incendiarism
30
Misuse of fire by a minor
28
Natural
24
Smoking
24
Railroad operations and maintenance
8
Recreation and ceremony
5
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Tennille Woman's Clubhouse: 3 producers, 1 plant.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Tennille, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 tornado, 1 lightning.
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.
A National Weather Service survey team found that a EF1 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 100 MPH and a maximum path width of 300 yards began along Grady Mertz Road near the intersection with Shurling Davis Road southeast of Tennille. The tornado travelled east along Shurling Davis Road before turning north and moving up Thompson Road, ending at Holmes Cannery Road. Numerous trees were downed and a trailer was rolled and destroyed. [01/21/17: Tornado #21, County #1/1, EF1, Washington, 2017:022].
A National Weather Service survey team found that a EF1 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 110 MPH and a maximum path width of 300 yards began around the intersection of Highway 68 and Hayes Road south of Tennille. The tornado travelled north-northeast for around two and a half miles before ending along Boatright Road south of Grady Mertz Road. Numerous trees were downed and two trailers were severely damaged. [01/21/17: Tornado #20, County #1/1, EF1, Washington, 2017:021].
The public reported that thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and power lines near the intersection of Georgia Highways 15 and 68. A wooden barn was destroyed and a utility building was moved off its foundation. A nearby home sustained some siding damage. In addition, a trampoline was blown near 200 feet.
The Washington County 911 Center reported that several trees were blown down around Tennille and southwest of Tennille, including a few which were down on Georgia Highway 68.
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.
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.
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