Franklin Yarbrough Jr. Store

Built in 1870. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Lee County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1870.

Sources: 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.
Listed as. Yarbrough, Franklin, Jr., Store - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Co. Hwy. 68, Beaulah, 36854
When was it listed? June 1989
Category. building
Census division. Beulah
When was it built? 1870
National Register reference number. 89000309 - 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

114 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Franklin Yarbrough Jr. Store between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,457 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 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	42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Arson/incendiarism	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2002	Debris and open burning	3.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2012	Other causes	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20120924-001
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	96 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2016	Natural	6.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-HARRIS-002
14 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-HARRIS-001
7 August 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Franklin Yarbrough Jr. Store: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Feldspar. 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
	Cha 1 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
	Lee 1 Clay Prospect	Feldspar	Prospect

Every working recorded in Lee 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
	Summers Plantation	5.9 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000309 in Record Group 79.
Lee County	All 26 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.