Cochran Municipal Building and School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Cochran Municipal Building and School are two historic buildings in Cochran, Georgia. They are located at the intersection of Dykes Street and Second Street, on the same block as the Bleckley County Courthouse.”
Wikipedia article Cochran Municipal Building and School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Bleckley County · listed in 2003 · 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 2 buildingss, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Dykes St. and Second St., Cochran, 31014
When was it listed? July 2003
Category. building
Census division. Cochran
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 03000704 - 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

654 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 654 fires within 5 miles of Cochran Municipal Building and School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,797 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 16 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	480
Equipment and vehicle use	42
Smoking	37
Misuse of fire by a minor	22
Recreation and ceremony	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	14
Natural	11

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
8 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Bleckley County

Storms near this property

39 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cochran, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 25 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
December 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$500,000	The Bleckley county 911 center reported that a couple of cell phone towers were blown down.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$125,000	The Bleckley County Emergency Management Director and Macon television stations reported extensive wind damage in the southern part of Bleckley county. Several dozen trees trees and many power lines were down, especially in the vicinity of Mac Thompson Road and Chicken Road. Structural damage was also observed. Some 20 to 25 homes sustained minor damage from downed trees. One mobile home sustained significant damage when a tree fell on the structure. A horse barn near the intersection of Mac Thomsron Road and Chicken Road collapsed during the strong winds. A horse inside was initially rescued from the fallen structure, but later died from injuries.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$50,000	The public reported that 3 barns were severely damaged.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$20,000	The Bleckley County Emergency Management Director reported that at least 30 medium size pine trees were either blown down or snapped in half in the Cochran area. Several center pivot irrigation units were turned over. A witness in Cochran noted the strong straight-line winds when his full-size Ford pickup truck was blown around. Several other trees and power lines were also down on Magnolia Road in northwest Bleckley county and in northeast Bleckley county on Cary Road.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$10,000	The Bleckley County 911 Center reported that several trees and power lines were blown down in the far southwest corner of the county, south of Cochran near the Dodge and Pulaski county lines. One barn also suffered significant damage.
November 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$6,000	The Bleckley County 911 Center reported numerous trees and power lines down across the county.
May 2014	Flash Flood	Cochran	$5,000	The Bleckley County emergency manager reported widespread street flooding in the Cochran area due to heavy rain of 3 inches in less than 3 hours. Overflowing drainage branches and small streams caused flood waters to enter a garage of a home off of Ann Street. Highwater surrounded the concrete foundation and entered a crawl space of a home off Phillips Lane.
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$5,000	no account filed
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$4,000	The Bleckley County 911 Center reported 4 power lines and several trees down.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$3,500	Numerous trees were knocked down countywide by thunderstorm winds. Power outages resulted when tree limbs fell on power lines.
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$3,000	The Bleckley county 911 center reported that several trees and one power line were down.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$3,000	An amateur radio operator reported 12 to 15 trees down on Macon highway, U.S. Highway 23/129. One tree was a pecan and the others were pines.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$3,000	Structural damage to a home and barn resulted from thunderstorm winds. A car was also blown off the blocks it was resting on.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$2,000	Em reports a couple trees down on the east side of cochran including along dyke st and frank cook rd.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$2,000	The Bleckley County 911 Center reported that several trees were blown down in the Cochran area.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$2,000	The Bleckley county 911 center reported that a couple of power poles and a few trees were blown down.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$1,000	A storm spotter reported that six trees were down on Porter Road northwest of Cochran and one tree was down on U.S. Highway 129/Georgia Highway 26 southwest of Cochran.
July 2008	Hail	Cochran	$1,000	The public observed quarter to half dollar-sized hail in the far southern part of the county, south of Cochran, near the Dodge and Pulaski county lines. At least one vehicle was damaged as a result.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$1,000	The Bleckley County Emergency Management Director reported that a few small trees were down across mainly the southern portion of the county.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down 5 to 7 trees in and near Cochran on county and city roads.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$500	The Bleckley County Emergency Manager reported a couple of trees down in Cochran.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$500	The Bleckley county 911 center reported trees down on Georgia Highway 26, Julia Simpson Road, and Peters Street in Cochran.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$500	no account filed
January 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	$100	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees onto power lines in the Rebie community.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	-	Tree uprooted along Fairfield Street near Clarendon Rd and Berkley Rd in East Cochran.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	-	Report of trees and powerlines down. Siding removed from High School Gym and Debris in road from local business. Along E Dykes St between Chester Rd and 9th St SE.
October 2010	Hail	Cochran	-	The Bleckley County Emergency Management Director reported nickel to quarter-sized hail east of Cochran.
March 2010	Hail	Cochran	-	The Bleckley County Emergency Management Director reported penny-sized hail just southwest of Cochran.
May 2009	Hail	Cochran	-	Macon television stations relayed reports of quarter-sized hail from southern Bleckley county, near Frazier.
June 2007	Hail	Cochran	-	The public reported nickel-sized hail.\|
December 2005	Hail	Cochran	-	The public reported quarter-sized hail.
June 2002	Hail	Cochran	-	The Bleckley county 911 center reported dime size hail.
May 2001	Hail	Cochran	-	The Bleckley county Sheriff's Deputy reported dime size hail.
June 1999	Hail	Cochran	-	The Bleckley county 911 center reported quarter size hail.
April 1998	Hail	Cochran	-	The Bleckley county EMA relayed numerous reports of hail ranging from pea to golfball size.
January 1995	Hail	Cochran	-	Hail was reported in the Cary community.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked numerous trees down county-wide.
June 1999	Hail	Cochran	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Cochran	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bleckley 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

2 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
	Bleckley County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1980
	Hillcrest	0.5 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000704 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bleckley County	All 3 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.