Oxford Railway Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 50 Spring Street, Oxford, 36203
When was it listed? June 2025
Category. building
Census division. Anniston
National Register reference number. 100011947 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Oxford Railway Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,774 acres in total. None started naturally. 37 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	37
Debris and open burning	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	2

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
30 September 2014	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NER-20140930-001
3 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160922-14
18 September 1998	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Oxford Railway Depot: 19 unknowns, 16 past producers, 7 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Kaolin, Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Anniston Pits	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	1875
Lackey Pit	Clay	Producer
Not Known, Ammiston Area	Manganese, Iron	Past Producer	Residual
Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Shirey Prospect No 2	Mica	Prospect
Shirey Prospect No. 2	Mica	Prospect
Carter Street Deposit	Aluminum, Kaolin	Prospect
Eulation Pike Deposit	Aluminum, Kaolin	Prospect
Parkwin Street Deposit	Aluminum, Kaolin	Prospect

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this property

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oxford, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2008: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 1998	Tornado (F1)	Oxford	$75,000	A small tornado developed over the Wellborn community. The Wellborn High School and Elementary School suffered extensive damage and the House of Prayer church in Wellborn had its roof blown partly off. The high school had damage done to its roof, air conditioning system and the softball field.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Oxford	$15,000	no account filed
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Oxford	$14,000	Thunderstorm wind blew down trees in the Angel Station area west of Jacksonville and quarter-size hail was reported at Jacksonville. Wind gusted to 66 miles an hour near the interstate at Oxford. Trees were downed and at least one fell on a house. About 4,500 electric customers were without power.
May 1998	Hail	Oxford	$10,000	Golf ball size hail was reported in Oxford.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Oxford	$8,000	Several trees were blown down from Oxford to Jacksonville.
November 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Oxford	$8,000	Numerous trees and power lines were reported down in Calhoun County. A tree fell on a house in Oxford.
January 1997	Hail	Oxford	$7,000	no account filed
July 2004	Flash Flood	Oxford	$3,000	Water covered Main Street and was reported over the tires on automobiles. A few other roads weretemporarily impassable in Oxford.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Oxford	-	Several trees and power lines were blown down.
December 2005	Hail	Oxford	-	Quarter size hail was observed on US 78 in Oxford.
July 2004	Hail	Oxford	-	Penny size hail was reported on Interstate 20 at mile marker 185.
May 2003	Funnel Cloud	Oxford	-	Several funnel cloud reports were received in the Anniston and Oxford areas. More funnel clouds were reported in Friendship.
February 2008	Hail	Oxford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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

6 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
Davis C. Cooper House	0.2 miles	2005
Dudley Snow House	0.7 miles	1982
Mount Zion Baptist Church	2.2 miles	1985
Anniston Electric and Gas Company Plant, Old	2.3 miles	1991
Glen Addie Volunteer Hose Company Fire Hall	2.4 miles	1985
Lansing T. Smith House	2.6 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011947 in Record Group 79.
Calhoun County	All 63 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.
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.