Street Manual Training School

Built in 1904. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Street Manual Training School was a historic African American school in Richmond, Alabama, United States. The campus comprised over 200 acres (81 ha), but most of it was sold after the school closed in 1971.”
Wikipedia article Street Manual Training School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Dallas County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1904.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 263 Cty. Rd. 38, Ruchmond-Minter, 36761
When was it listed? July 1999
Category. building
Census division. Carlowville
When was it built? 1904
National Register reference number. 99000891 - 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

34 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Street Manual Training School between 1994 and 2019, burning about 404 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Natural	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
9 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160909-21
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	4.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20140801-002
9 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	83 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 July 2000	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190701-4

Every fire recorded in Dallas 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
	Carlowville Historic District	2.3 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000891 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dallas County	All 35 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.