Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
From the record
“Eli Henderson Park at Janney Furnace is a park surrounding a fifty-foot tall stone furnace in Ohatchee, Alabama, United States. The furnace was built in 1863 by Alfred Janney to produce pig iron due to the prevalence of iron ore in what is now the park.”
Wikipedia article Janney Furnace Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 63 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 1976 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.76000315- 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
156 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Janney Furnace
between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,907 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 61 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
61
Debris and open burning
52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
17
Recreation and ceremony
11
Equipment and vehicle use
10
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Natural
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
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
23 workings within 5 miles of Janney Furnace: 13 unknowns, 5 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc. 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
Ohatchee, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 1 lightning, 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.
A discount store suffered significant damage when winds estimated at 70 mph picked up rocks and blew them into the store front windows. The winds then blew out the right side of the building, and the aluminum beam framework twisted causing the wall to cave in.
The tornado briefly touched down south of Ohatchee. It knocked down or snapped off several trees along the path. A few small out-buildings were also damaged along the path. One fallen tree landed on a home and produced damage. The tornado affected areas along Boiling Springs Road (County Road 73).
As many as 6 roads in and around the city of Ohatchee were closed due to water flowing over them. Rock Springs had 2 to 3 feet of flowing water, and Horse Bend Road had 1 to 1.5 feet of flowing water.
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.
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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