Merritt School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Merritt School, also known as the Old Merritt School and Midway Community Center, is a historic building and former two-room Rosenwald School for African American students in Bullock County, Alabama, United States, that was built around 1922.”
Wikipedia article Merritt School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Bullock County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.

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. Old Troy Rd., 0.5 mi. S of US 82, Midway, 36053
When was it listed? February 1998
Category. building
Also known as. The Rosenwald School Building Fund and Associated Buildings MPS
Census division. Midway
National Register reference number. 98000110 - 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

85 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Merritt School between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,706 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 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	29
Arson/incendiarism	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160930-9
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190922-17
16 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.6 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190916-19
12 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	200 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Bullock County

Storms near this property

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midway, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	$125,000	A microburst caused significant damage to The Triple M Quail Farm on CR 14. The wind destroyed three quail houses and damaged another. One tractor sustained damage when the roof of a building landed on it. 8500 quail were killed. The time was estimated.
December 2009	Flash Flood	Midway	$10,000	An estimated 3 to 4 inches of rain in a short time lead to flash flooding of several roads in the southeastern portion of Bullock County, some of which became impassable due to the high water.
January 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	$6,000	Trees were blown down and blocking roadways near Midway. One mobile home suffered roof damage.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	$5,000	Several trees and powerlines were reported down along Hwy 82, southeast of Midway.
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	$2,000	A few trees were blown down on CR 47 near Midway.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	Multiple trees uprooted in Midway.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	Several trees uprooted in the town of Midway.
December 2005	Hail	Midway	-	Penny size hail was observed in Midway and in the Great Hope community.
January 2000	Tornado (F0)	Midway	-	A weak tornado briefly touched down near Midway. Several trees were blown down. No injuries were reported.
January 2000	Hail	Midway	-	Nickel size hail was reported on Pine Grove Road near Midway Station.

Every storm recorded in Bullock 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000110 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bullock County	All 4 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.