Photograph of Calhoun Colored School — Photograph by Rivers Langley; SaveRivers, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Calhoun School Principal's House

Built in 1892. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Calhoun Colored School (1892-1945), was a private boarding and day school for Black students in Calhoun, Lowndes County, Alabama, about 28 miles (45 km) southwest of the capital of Montgomery. It was founded in 1892 by Charlotte Thorn and Mabel Dillingham, from New England, in partnership with Booker T.”
Wikipedia article Calhoun Colored School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Lowndes County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1892.

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. CR 33, Calhoun, 36047
When was it listed? March 1976
Category. building
Census division. Fort Deposit
When was it built? 1892
National Register reference number. 76000340 - 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

109 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Calhoun School Principal's House between 1994 and 2019, burning about 726 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Smoking	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190930-14
30 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190930-18
28 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20150807-001
4 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Lowndes County

Storms near this property

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calhoun, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Calhoun	$3,000	Several trees were toppled along County Road 45 between Fort Deposit and Mount Willing.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Calhoun	-	Several trees uprooted along County Road 33.

Every storm recorded in Lowndes 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	James Spullock Williamson House	6.2 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000340 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lowndes County	All 6 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.
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.