Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
From the record
“The Calera Downtown Historic District, in Calera, Alabama, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. The listing included 25 contributing buildings on 22 acres (8.9 ha).”
Wikipedia article Calera Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Shelby County · listed in 2006 · category: District.
National Register reference number.06000188- 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
121 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Calera Downtown Historic District
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,016 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 40 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
50
Arson/incendiarism
40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
12
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Recreation and ceremony
6
Railroad operations and maintenance
5
Natural
1
Smoking
1
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
13 workings within 5 miles of Calera Downtown Historic District: 5 producers, 4 unknowns, 2 past producers, 2 plants.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Clay, Stone. 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
Calera, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 7 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.
Lightning stuck several power lines and transformers. A few of the power lines were knocked down and power outages occurred across many locations in southern Shelby County.
Several large tents were blown over and destroyed, several trees were blown down, and shingles were lifted off the depot building, at the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum.
The tornado began in far northern Chilton County near the county line and moved quickly into Shelby County. It moved through South Calera and northward into downtown Calera, where mostly|tree damage was noted. There were several mobile/manufactured|homes damaged on 13th Street as the tornado paralleled US Highway|31 before crossing Interstate 65, where several campers at a|dealership were rolled and/or tossed. Numerous snapped trees were|noted at this location as well. The tornado made a left turn over|Limestone Parkway and moved north-northwest over a shopping|center just east of the intersection of US 31 and AL Highway 70.|Thereafter, the tornado moved into the cone of silence of the|KBMX RADAR near the O'Neal Quarry office, where many trees were|snapped and uprooted. After speaking with Lhoist quarry|officials, no damage was reported at the quarry, and the end of|the tornado was placed just to the north of Oak Tree Lane, where|a few trees were downed and metal farm buildings sustained minor|roof damage. Maximum winds were estimated to be around 90 mph at|both the mobile home neighborhood and the camper dealership. The total path length of the tornado was 7.47 miles.
National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in Shelby County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 70 mph. The tornado touched down near County Road 16 where it crosses the Vulcan Quarry, causing minor timber damage across Shelby County Road 16 that blocked the roadway. The tornado continued to the north-northeast through inaccessible forested areas and crossed the northern extent of the quarry where no damage was reported by personnel. The tornado moved nearly due north and caused some minor timber damage as it crossed Shelby County Road 22 and uprooted trees as it moved across Sharpsburg Circle. A nearby home had a portion of its wooden fence supports broken due to the winds. Behind a house three trees were uprooted. A few trees were uprooted at the eastern end of Ivanhoe Lane. Further to the north, the tornado crossed Rossburg Drive and Rossburg Place, causing significant roof damage to one home, broke apart portions of five fences, deposited plywood and some roofing material on the roof an other homes, uprooted a few trees and tore a small portion of a roof off of an upstairs room. The tornado then continued northward, between Little John Circle and Nottingham Drive, where it dissipated.
At least a dozen trees were uprooted across a one mile area near the Timberline Golf Course near the Intersection of Highway 25 and Interstate 65. Two to three dozen trees were also uprooted or snapped near the Water Treatment Plant in Calera.
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.
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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