Colbert School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Fourth St. and First Ave., Colbert, 30628
When was it listed? September 2001
Category. building
Census division. Colbert
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 01000942 - 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

241 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of Colbert School between 1992 and 2019, burning about 412 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 19 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	140
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Arson/incendiarism	19
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Smoking	17
Natural	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	3

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	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-MADISON-009
7 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colbert, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
September 2004	Tornado (F1)	Colbert	$1,300,000	A damage assessment conducted by the National Weather Service and the Madison County Emergency Management Director concluded that a 7-mile long path, 150-yard wide, F1 tornado with near 100 mph winds was spawned by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ivan causing major damage to several large homes in a country club, along with extensive damage to trees and power lines along its path. The tornado began just south of Georgia Highway 72, just east of Colbert, near the intersection of Walnut Grove Church Road and Kingston Road and continued moving north-northwest around 40 mph, terminating near the Madison County High School on Georgia Highway 98, just west of Danielsville. The most significant damage occurred along the southern part of the storm's path in the Kingston Road Subdivision/Country Club. Here, around five homes sustained major to extensive damage, while approximately another 20 homes sustained minor to moderate damage. In addition, widespread damage to trees and power lines was observed along the path of the tornado. Damage to the windward side of the roofs on several homes was consistent with a tornado circulation.
July 1999	Flash Flood	Colbert	$25,000	A newspaper reported that heavy rain caused the roof at the Comer Medical Clinic to collapse. Basements of homes were flooded in the Colbert area. A culvert was washed out on the Shoal Creek Road. Around 4 inches of rain fell during the afternoon, causing the damage.
November 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Colbert	$4,000	The Madison County 911 center reported 4 trees blown down between Colbert and Carlton across the southern portion of the county.
February 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Colbert	$3,000	The Madison county 911 center reported that two trees were blown down across Georgia Highway 72 between Hull and Colbert. In addition, some road construction barrels were also blown over in the same area.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Colbert	$1,000	The Madison County 911 Center reported that a tree was down on a power line in Colbert.
December 2005	Hail	Colbert	-	The public reported that nickel-sized hail covered the ground.
July 2002	Hail	Colbert	-	The public reported dime size hail.
May 1999	Hail	Colbert	-	Madison county 911 reported dime size hail.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Colbert Historic District	0.4 miles	1984
Comer Historic District	5.3 miles	1995
Madison County Courthouse	5.8 miles	1980
Crawford W. Long Childhood Home	5.9 miles	1977
Paoli Historic District	7.8 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000942 in Record Group 79.
Madison County	All 6 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.