Built in 1936. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
From the record
“Cleburne County High School is a public school in Heflin, Alabama, United States, serving students in grades 8 to 12 in Cleburne County, Alabama. Old Cleburne County High School is a historic school building listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Cleburne County High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Cleburne County · listed in 2018 · category: Building · built in 1936.
National Register reference number. 100002763 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
219 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 219 fires within 5 miles of Cleburne County High School
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,692 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 104 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
Arson/incendiarism
104
Debris and open burning
62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
13
Equipment and vehicle use
12
Railroad operations and maintenance
11
Natural
7
Recreation and ceremony
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
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
11 workings within 5 miles of Cleburne County High School: 6 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 plant.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Mica, Gold, Manganese. 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
Heflin, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 18 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Cleburne County Emergency Medical Service personnel along with volunteer firemen from Hollis, Heflin, and Micaville and an Alabama State Trooper worked to rescue an unidentified male after the car he attempted to drive trough floodwaters was washed into a ditch and almost submerged. The man attempted to drive through floodwaters from the Tallapoosa River covering a portion of CR 36 when the swift current pushed the car into a ditch where it caught on some trees.
The tornado touched down along the Talladega Scenic Drive just south of US Highway 78. It then moved along a slightly curved path until it crossed CR-79, and then tracked almost due east as it produced its most concentrated damage near SR-9. The tornado lifted near the end of Brockford Road in the vicinity of Shadow Lane, on the east side of the city of Heflin. Hundreds of trees were either snapped off or uprooted along the path. Eight homes were destroyed, and more than 40 others received significant damage.
Hail slightly larger than golf ball-size was reported at Heflin. A number of trees were downed by wind. Damage in Heflin began on U.S. Highway 78 West and crossed through town.
Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across the northern portion of the county. At least 10 buildings had roof damage due to downed trees, and at least 3 buildings had roofs completely blown off. Several mobile homes in a mobile home park suffered varying degrees of damage to underpinning, roofs, and structure.
A large interstate light pole fell on a traveling vehicle on the entrance ramp to Interstate 20 Exit 199. The occupants of the vehicle were uninjured. Several trees and one billboard were blown down in the Heflin area.
Numerous trees and power lines were blown down south of Heflin along the Tallapoosa River. Several trees fell onto State Highway 9, County Road 12, County Road 36 and in the Beason Mill community.
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
2 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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