Built in 1903 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
From the record
“Allen Mercantile Company is a historic retail trade building at 102 Main Street in Climax, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.”
Wikipedia article Allen Mercantile Company, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Decatur County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · built in 1903, Italianate architecture.
National Register reference number.02001632- 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
361 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 361 fires within 5 miles of Allen Mercantile Company
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,296 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 32 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
287
Arson/incendiarism
32
Smoking
15
Equipment and vehicle use
10
Natural
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Recreation and ceremony
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Allen Mercantile Company: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Climax, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 15 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado.
The reports record 4 injuries. 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.
An F2 tornado touched down on Fewell Road in the Bell Dixon Community and tracked northeast into western Grady County. Debris was scattered over a wide area. Four persons were injured, one critically. Five homes sustained roof and window damage. Numerous trees and power lines down. One house was destroyed and eight others were severely damaged. A double-wide mobile home on Bell Dixon Road was lifted from its foundation and reduced to bits of debris in a neighboring field. Reported by the Decatur County EMA and Bainbridge Post Searchlight.
A brief tornado developed near Salem Church road and Handville Road, damaging a farm and crossing a field before dissipating near Bradley Street, just north of Climax, Georgia. The tornado caused significant damage to trees and a farm equipment storage building along the path, pulling very heavy concrete footing from the ground. The damage was consistent with an EF1 tornado with winds of 90 to 95 mph.
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.
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.
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