Wadley Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“The Wadley Railroad Depot is a historic train station in Wadley, Alabama. The depot was built in 1907 along with the Atlanta, Birmingham, and Atlantic Railroad line as part of an expansion from West Point, Georgia, to Talladega, Alabama.”
Wikipedia article Wadley station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Randolph County · listed in 2011 · 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. Broad St. at NE. corner of Tallapoosa St., Wadley, 36276
When was it listed? July 2011
Category. building
Census division. Wadley
National Register reference number. 11000428 - 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

94 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Wadley Railroad Depot between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,151 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 21 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	34
Arson/incendiarism	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2002	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NER-20140830-001
30 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	238 CR 891, AL

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wadley Railroad Depot: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Arsenic, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Number Two Prospect	Arsenic, Lead, Zinc, Copper	Occurrence	Underground
	Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this property

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wadley, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2005	Tornado (F1)	Wadley	$60,000	no account filed
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	$25,000	no account filed
April 2005	Tornado (F1)	Wadley	$18,000	no account filed
April 2006	Lightning	Wadley	$10,000	A lightning strike ignited a gas fire.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	$2,000	Signs in a shopping center were blown down in the Wadley Area.
October 1997	Hail	Wadley	$2,000	Three-quarter inch hail was reported just south of Wadley.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	$1,000	A tree blown down onto a power line caused a grass fire next to a house.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	-	Several trees and a few power lines were downed across the Wadley, Roanoke, and Wedowee areas, with a couple vehicle accidents resulting from fallen trees in roadways.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	-	Several trees uprooted in the town of Wadley.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	-	Several trees uprooted in the city of Wadley.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadley	-	Trees were blown down along Alabama Highway 22 east of Wadley.
March 2003	Hail	Wadley	-	Nickel size hail was observed in Wadley.
April 2017	Hail	Wadley	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Wadley	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Wadley	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Wadley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000428 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Randolph County	All 3 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.