Photograph of Tuskegee Veterans Administration Medical Center — Photograph by U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Tuskegee Veterans Administration Hospital

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

“The Tuskegee Veterans Administration Medical Center began in 1923 as an old soldiers' home in Tuskegee, Alabama. It was originally called the Tuskegee Home, part of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers system.”
Wikipedia article Tuskegee Veterans Administration Medical Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Macon County · listed in 2012 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 2400 Hospital Rd., Macon, 36083
When was it listed? March 2012
Category. district
Also known as. United States Second Generation Veterans Hospitals MPS
Census division. Tuskegee
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture, Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 12000140 - 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

321 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 321 fires within 5 miles of Tuskegee Veterans Administration Hospital between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,194 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 96 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	98
Arson/incendiarism	96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	52
Smoking	41
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	2
Other causes	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 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170909-2
9 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170909-3
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160906-4
5 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Macon 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 Tuskegee Veterans Administration Hospital: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
	Chehaw Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Macon 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
Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site	1.2 miles	1966
Grey Columns	1.3 miles	1980
North Main Street Historic District	1.5 miles	1985
Macon County Courthouse	1.9 miles	1978
Butler Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	2.0 miles	1995
Main Street Historic District	2.0 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000140 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Macon County	All 14 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.