Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
From the record
“Southern Railway Depot in Piedmont, Alabama, United States, is a station that served the Southern Railway from 1868. It was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on May 27, 1983, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 5, 1984.”
Wikipedia article Piedmont station (Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 63 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.84000599- 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
293 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Southern Railway Depot
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,580 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 164 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
164
Debris and open burning
77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
25
Recreation and ceremony
9
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Natural
7
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Smoking
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
36 workings within 5 miles of Southern Railway Depot: 11 occurrences, 10 unknowns, 9 prospects, 5 past producers.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Cobalt, Manganese, Aluminum. 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
Piedmont, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 16 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 tornado.
The reports record 1 death and 6 injuries. 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.
National Weather Service meteorologists conducted a ground survey on Tuesday August 30, 2005. It has been determined that an F1 tornado occurred with winds estimated around 80 miles an hour in Calhoun County. The tornado touched down at approximately 353 PM CDT, just east of State Highway 9 in the Nances Creek community. This is about 6 miles southwest of Piedmont. The tornado crossed State Highway 9 moving northwest and damaged three homes along Hollingsworth Road. The tornado lifted around 356 PM CDT near Hurricane Mountain. The tornado damage path was 1.52 miles long and 30 yards wide at its widest point. Several trees were uprooted or snapped off along the path of the tornado. At least two homes and a mobile home were damaged along Hollingsworth Road.Begin: 33 50.84/85 39.70 End: 33 51.96/85 40.54
In the Piedmont and Vigo areas of northern Calhoun County, one home had its roof completely blown off, one barn had its roof blown off, a few homes had shingle damage, one tree fell on a mobile home, and several more trees and power lines were blown down.
Very large hail fell across extreme northern Calhoun County. A majority of the hail was golf ball size and covered the ground in a few locations. A few reports were received that a couple of the pieces of hail were softball size. Most of the hail was thrown out of a storm located farther north in Cherokee County and little rain was observed with this storm.
A portion of the roof of a convenience store was ripped away by thunderstorm wind. Several windows were blown out and some trees were blown down in the area.
State Troopers closed CR 19 southwest of Piedmont. The highway had several feet of water across it with large branches seen floating by. Several inches of rain fell in a short period of time mainly in rural northern Calhoun County.
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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