This is a survey of Georgia Counties in which some sort of natural disaster (and man made in some cases) may have affected the county record repositories. You will notice that many of these dates correspond with years in the civil war as the Union soldiers made it a point to burn the county courthouse and all its property records which would include slave records. This survey does NOT imply that all records were lost. Researchers should consult both the Archives and the courthouse to determine what records survive.
| County | Fire | Flood | Storm |
| Baker | 1925, 1929 | ||
| Baldwin | 1861 | ||
| Bartow | 1864 | ||
| Bulloch | 1864 | ||
| Burke | 1825, 1856 | ||
| Butts | 1828 | ||
| Calhoun | 1888, 1920 | ||
| Carroll | 1927 | ||
| Charlton | 1877, 1928 | ||
| Cherokee | 1865,1928 | ||
| Clayton | 1864 | ||
| Clinch | 1856, 1867 | ||
| Cobb | 1864 | ||
| Coffee | 1898, 1938 | ||
| Colquitt | 1881 | ||
| Crawford | 1829 | ||
| Dade | 1865, 1895 | ||
| DeKalb | 1842, 1898 | ||
| Dooly | 1847 | ||
| Douglas | 1896, 1957 | ||
| Early | 1896 | ||
| Echols | 1897 | ||
| Emanuel | 1841, 1855, 1857, 1919, 1938 | ||
| Fayette | ca. 1982 | ||
| Forsyth | 1900, 1905, 1973 | ||
| Glynn | ca. 1906 | 1896 | |
| Gordon | 1888 | ||
| Grady | 1980 | ||
| Greene | 1787 | ||
| Gwinnett | 1871 | ||
| Habersham | 1856, 1898 | ||
| Hall | 1851, 1882 | 1936 | |
| Harris | 1865 | ||
| Hart | 1900, 1967 | ||
| Heard | 1893 | ||
| Henry | 1864 (?) | ||
| Jenkins | 1919 (?) | ||
| Lee | 1856, 1872 | ||
| Lowndes | 1858, 1869 | ||
| Macon | 1857 | ||
| Marion | 1845 | ||
| McIntosh | 1864, 1872, 1931 | ||
| Meriwether | 1976 | 1893 | |
| Miller | 1873, 1974 | ||
| Mitchell | 1869 | ||
| Morgan | 1917 (?) | ||
| Muscogee | 1838 | ||
| Newton | 1883 | ||
| Pickens | 1945 | ||
| Pierce | 1875 | ||
| Polk | 1846 | ||
| Quitman | 1920 | ||
| Screven | 1860’s, 1896 | ||
| Spalding | 1981 | ||
| Stewart | 1922 | ||
| Talbot | 1890 | ||
| Telfair | early 1900’s | ||
| Thomas | 1849 | ||
| Toombs | ca. 1919 | ||
| Troup | 1936 | ||
| Twiggs | 1901 | ||
| Union | 1859 | ||
| Walker | 1883 | ||
| Ware | 1854 | ||
| Warren | 1909 | ||
| Washington | 1855, 1864 | ||
| Webster | 1914 | ||
| Wheeler | 1916 | ||
| Whitfield | 1864 | ||
| Wilcox | ca. 1902 | ||
| Wilkes | 1958 | ||
| Wilkinson | 1829, 1854, 1864, 1924 | ||
| Worth | 1879, 1893, 1982 |