Below is a list from the State of Georgia, Dept. of Archives &
History of Georgia Counties and the years the Courthouses were subjected
to a disaster. This does NOT mean that ALL RECORDS were lost. Often,
folks took their documents again in for recording after a disaster and
later deeds will contain long chains of title, etc.
- Baker County: Flood - 1925, 1929.
- Baldwin County: Fire - 1861.
- Bartow County: Originally Cass County.
Courthouse destroyed by enemy fire during War Between the States in
the 1860's.
- Bulloch County: Fire - 1864.
- Burke County: Fire - 1825, 1856.
- Calhoun County: Fire - 1888, 1920.
- Carroll County: Fire - 1927.
- Charlton County: County site then at
Traders Hill. Destroyed by fire in 1877. Present site fire
19 February 1928.
- Cherokee County: Fire - 1865, 1928.
- Clayton County: Fire - 1864.
- Clinch County: Fire - 1856, 1867.
- Cobb County: Fire - 1864.
- Coffee County: Fire - 1898, 1938.
- Colquitt County: Fire - 1881.
- Crawford County: Fire - 1829.
- Dade County: Fire - 1865, 1895.
- DeKalb County: Fire - 1842, 1898.
- Dooly County: Fire - 1847.
- Douglas County: Fire - 1896, 1957.
- Early County: Fire - 1896.
- Echols County: Fire - 1897.
- Emanuel County: Fire - 1841, 1855, 1857,
1919, 1938.
- Forsyth County: Fire - 1973.
- Glynn County: Storm - 1896.
- Gordon County: Storm - 1888.
- Greene County: Town burned by Indians in
1787.
- Gwinnett County: Fire - 1871.
- Habersham County: Fire - 1856. Blown up
in 1898.
- Hall County: Fire - 1851, 1882. Tornado
in 1936.
- Harris County: Set fire by Federal Troops
in 1865, but quickly extinguished.
- Hart County: Fire - 1900, 1967.
Courthouse burned in 1967. Clerk & Ordinary's Office in adjacent
building.
- Heard County: Fire - 1893.
- Henry County: Fire - 1824. 1864 (Some
records destroyed by Sherman's men.)
- Jenkins County: Fire - 1919.
- Lee County: Fire - 1856. County seat
then at Starkville. Fire at Leesburg in 1872.
- Lowndes County: Fire - 1858, 1869.
- Macon County: Fire - 1857.
- Marion County: Fire - 1845.
- McIntosh County: Fire - 1864, 1872, 1931.
- Meriwether County: Cyclone - 3 March
1893. Fire - 1976.
- Miller County: Fire - 1873, 1974.
- Mitchell County: Fire - 1869.
- Muscogee County: Fire - 1838.
- Newton County: Fire - 1883.
- Paulding - Fire -
- Pickens County: Fire - 1947.
- Pierce County: Fire - 1875.
- Quitman County: Fire - 1920.
- Screven County: Fire - 1860's, 1896.
- Stewart County: Fire - 1922.
- Talbot County: Fire - 1890.
- Telfair County: Fire in the early 1900's.
- Thomas County: Damaged by storm in 1849.
- Toombs County: Fire - 1919.
- Troup County: Mysterious fire 4 November
1936.
- Twiggs County: Fire - 1901.
- Union County: Fire - 1859.
- Walker County: Fire - 1883.
- Ware County: Fire - 1854.
- Warren County: Fire - 1909.
- Washington County: Fire - 1855, 1864
(Sherman).
- Webster County: Fire - 1914.
- Wheeler County: Fire - 1916.
- Whitfield County: Fire - 1864 (Sherman).
- Wilkes County: Fire - 1958.
- Wilkinson County: Fire - 1829, 1854,
1864, 1924.
- Worth County: Fire - 1879, 1893
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