Thomaston Colored Institute

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Thomaston Colored Institute, also known as the Thomaston Academy, is a historic African American school building in the town of Thomaston, Alabama, United States. This two-story brick building was completed in May 1910 as a private school by an African American religious group, the West Alabama Primitive Baptist Association.”
Wikipedia article Thomaston Colored Institute, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Marengo County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1120 Seventh Ave., Thomaston, 36783
When was it listed? August 2000
Category. building
Census division. Thomaston
National Register reference number. 00001024 - 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

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Thomaston Colored Institute between 1994 and 2020, burning about 354 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
20 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140920-001
17 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2006	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2000	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	HWY 28, AL
8 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	AL HWY 28, AL

Every fire recorded in Marengo County

Storms near this property

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thomaston, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
November 2004	Tornado (F2)	Thomaston	2 hurt, $135,000	no account filed
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Thomaston	$15,000	no account filed
November 2004	Tornado (F0)	Thomaston	$10,000	no account filed
December 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Thomaston	$8,000	High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines near Thomaston.
January 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Thomaston	-	Trees were downed in the Thomaston area.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Thomaston	-	A few trees were blown down near Thomaston.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Thomaston	-	Multiple trees uprooted in Thomaston.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Thomaston	-	Numerous trees uprooted along County Roads 25 and 28.
March 2005	Hail	Thomaston	-	Penny size hail was reported along SR 66 in far eastern Marengo County.
May 1998	Hail	Thomaston	-	Dime size hail was reported by the sheriff's office.

Every storm recorded in Marengo 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

5 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
C.S. Golden House	0.4 miles	2000
Thomaston Central Historic District	0.5 miles	2000
Patrick Farrish House	0.7 miles	2000
Half-Chance Bridge	4.8 miles	1972
William Poole House	5.4 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001024 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marengo County	All 29 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.