Alapaha Colored School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Alapaha Colored School is a historic school building in Alapaha, Georgia, located on Henry Street South of the junction with George Street. It is one of the last surviving two-story wood-frame African-American school buildings in Georgia.”
Wikipedia article Alapaha Colored School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Berrien County · listed in 2002 · 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. Henry St., S of jct. with George St., Alapaha, 31622
When was it listed? July 2002
Category. building
Census division. Alapaha
National Register reference number. 02000758 - 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

200 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 200 fires within 5 miles of Alapaha Colored School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,684 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 21 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
Arson/incendiarism	21
Natural	15
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BERRIEN015
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BERRIEN014
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BERRIEN013
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BERRIEN-006
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BERRIEN012
24 September 2019	Debris and open burning	6.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BERRIEN011
24 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BERRIEN010

Every fire recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this property

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alapaha, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 17 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Alapaha	$50,000	A tree was blown down onto a home along Wycliff Roberts Road.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Alapaha	$50,000	Straight line winds downed many trees and power lines. Some structural damage occurred from fallen trees.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Alapaha	$50,000	Numerous trees and utility poles down in Alapaha. U.S. Highway 82 and several streets were blocked by fallen trees. Some area structures were damaged. Parts of the city experienced power outages for several hours.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Alapaha	$8,000	Multiple trees and power lines were blown down. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Alapaha	$6,250	The Berrien County 911 center reported trees and power lines down along Highway 129. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Alapaha	$3,000	Trees were blown down around Alapaha. Monetary damage was estimated.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Alapaha	$3,000	Trees and power lines down with scattered power outages west and southwest of Alapaha.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Alapaha	$2,000	There were multiple reports of trees down near Alapaha.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Alapaha	$1,000	At least three trees were blown down south of Alapaha.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Alapaha	$500	A tree was blown down on Highway 129N near Alapaha.
April 2024	Flash Flood	Alapaha	-	Several dirt roads were washed out in the Alapaha area.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Alapaha	-	A tree was blown down onto J.E. McMillan Road.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Alapaha	-	Large trees limbs were down on the roadway.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Alapaha	-	Several trees were blown down.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Alapaha	-	Trees were blown down around Alapaha.
March 2012	Heavy Rain	Alapaha	-	A storm total of 4.43 inches was measured at the Alapaha river near Alapaha.
January 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Alapaha	-	Several trees were blown down in Alapaha.
April 2009	Funnel Cloud	Alapaha	-	A funnel cloud was reported just north of U.S. Highway 82.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Alapaha	-	Several trees were down across U.S. Highway 82 at Mile Marker 12.
April 2004	Hail	Alapaha	-	Penny size hail reported by the Berrien County EMA.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Alapaha	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees.
March 2023	Hail	Alapaha	-	no account filed
March 2019	Hail	Alapaha	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Alapaha	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Berrien 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 02000758 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Berrien 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.