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One of 15 National Register listings published here for Morgan County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Apalachee School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 5060 Lower Apalachee Rd., Apalachee, 30650
- When was it listed? May 2000
- Category. building
- Census division. Bostwick
- Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 00000527 - 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
133 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Apalachee School between 1992 and 2019, burning about 701 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 20 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 | 75 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1997 | Smoking | 9.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-MORGAN-003 |
| 18 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 August 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 August 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-MORGAN-001 |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Apalachee School: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Beryllium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliston Prospect | Mica | Prospect | ||
| Carter Prospect | Beryllium | Prospect |
Storms near this property
5 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Apalachee, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Apalachee | $20,000 | The Morgan county 911 center reported that a tree fell on and damaged a mobile home in Apalachee and a power line was knocked down in Madison. Pea size hail was also observed with this thunderstorm. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Apalachee | $6,000 | The Morgan County 911 Center reported several trees blown down along Parsonage Road just northwest of Apalachee. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Apalachee | $250 | The Morgan County 911 center reported that one tree was blown down on U.S. Highway 441. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Apalachee | $250 | The Morgan County 911 center reported that a tree had blown down. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Apalachee | - | no account filed |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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 A. Nolan House | 3.9 miles | 2019 | |
| Cedar Lane Farm | 5.0 miles | 1971 | |
 | Susie Agnes Hotel | 5.6 miles | 1994 |
| Bostwick Historic District | 5.6 miles | 2002 | |
 | Madison Historic District (Boundary Increase) | 6.7 miles | 1990 |
 | Madison Historic District | 6.9 miles | 1974 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00000527 in Record Group 79. |
| Morgan County | All 15 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.
- 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.