New Hope Rosenwald School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“New Hope Rosenwald School (1915-1964) was a one teacher Rosenwald School for African American students, and is a historic building, located near Fredonia, Alabama, U.S. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of The Rosenwald School Building Fund and Associated Buildings Multiple Property Submission on November 29, 2001.”
Wikipedia article New Hope Rosenwald School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Chambers County · listed in 2001 · 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. 2.25 mi SE of US 431 on Cty Rd. 267, Frdonia, 36863
When was it listed? November 2001
Category. building
Also known as. The Rosenwald School Building Fund and Associated Buildings MPS
Census division. Five Points
National Register reference number. 01001297 - 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

96 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of New Hope Rosenwald School between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,141 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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	37
Arson/incendiarism	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20130909-001
4 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160925-15
15 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 August 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200810-3

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of New Hope Rosenwald School: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Chambers County Gibbsite Prospect	Aluminum	Occurrence	1977

Every working recorded in Chambers 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

3 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
Ernest McCarty Oliver House	6.5 miles	1974
Chambers County Courthouse Square Historic District	7.4 miles	1980
Vines Funeral Home and Ambulance Service	7.7 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001297 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chambers County	All 10 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.
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.