Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
From the record
“Post Office, also known as the Federal Building and Courthouse, is a historic government building in Anniston, Alabama, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1976.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Anniston, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 63 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.76000314- 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
175 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 175 fires within 5 miles of U.S. Post Office
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 6,816 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 43 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
62
Arson/incendiarism
43
Debris and open burning
36
Equipment and vehicle use
18
Recreation and ceremony
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
6
Smoking
2
Natural
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
72 workings within 5 miles of U.S. Post Office: 39 unknowns, 21 past producers, 9 prospects, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Kaolin, Clay. 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
Anniston, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 21 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 3 lightning, 3 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.
Thunderstorm wind downed trees in Anniston including one that fell on two cars and one that fell on a house causing substantial damage. Lightning also struck one house causing a fire.
Several buildings were damaged as well as numerous trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm wind according to the emergency management office. Winds gusted to 66 mph in Anniston.
A storage building at the Anniston Museum of Natural History was struck by lightning and subsequently burned to the ground. The storage building mainly housed landscaping tools and machinery.
Quarter to golfball size hail was reported around the city of Anniston. Dime size hail fell in the Piedmont area. A multi-car accident occurred on Interstate 20 due to hail and heavy rainfall but no injuries were reported.
Wind damage was reported by emergency management along County Road 93 about four miles north of United States Highway 78 in southwest Calhoun County. About 25 trees were downed and several buildings were damaged.
Numerous trees down across Anniston, Oxford, and Weaver, including Quintard Ave, Rainbow Cir, Conger Rd, M St, Lenlock Ln, and Interstate 20. Some trees fell on homes, vehicles, or power lines.
Several buildings were damaged as well as numerous trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm wind according to the emergency management office. Winds gusted to 66 mph in Anniston.
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.
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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