O'Neal School Neighborhood Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Crisp County · listed in 2004 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by the Seaboard Coastline Railroad, Owens St. 16ht Ave. and 6th St., Cordele, 31015
When was it listed? October 2004
Category. district
Census division. Cordele
National Register reference number. 04000339 - 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

492 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 492 fires within 5 miles of O'Neal School Neighborhood Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,155 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 73 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	277
Arson/incendiarism	73
Equipment and vehicle use	62
Railroad operations and maintenance	26
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	10
Natural	8
Smoking	5

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 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CRISP-006
8 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CRISP-005
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Crisp County

Storms near this property

58 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cordele, the town this property stands in, in 58 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 29 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 6 flash flood, 4 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
August 2013	Lightning	Cordele	$200,000	The Crisp County Emergency Manager reported that a business was struck by lightning and burned for a total loss.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$100,000	The Crisp County Sheriff's Department and the county Emergency Manager reported numerous trees and power lines blown down in the Cordele area. A falling tree destroyed a mobile home near the corner of Crisp Street and Church Street. Power lines were down along Farmers Market Road between Highway 41 and I-75. Numerous trees and power lines were down in the vicinity of the Crisp Regional Hospital with several homes and vehicles damaged or destroyed by falling trees.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$52,000	no account filed
December 2009	Flash Flood	Cordele	$50,000	The Crisp County Emergency Management Director reported flash flooding in the Cedar Lake subdivision. The flooding was a result of overflow from Cedar Lake. Several homes in the subdivision were threatened by flood waters. The water rose up into the crawl spaces of several homes in this neighborhood. Several of the residential streets were flooded and impassable. Monetary damage to roads and property was estimated to be $50,000.
December 2009	Flash Flood	Cordele	$50,000	The Crisp County Emergency Management Director reported flash flooding in the Cedar Creek Subdivision. Water rose as high as the floor boards of six to seven homes, but did not actually enter the house. However, the crawl spaces of the homes were flooded. Several roads in the area were under water as well. Pateville Road was closed because of flood waters from the northern branch of Swift Creek. The Cedar Creek subdivision is located approximately one mile southwest of the intersection of Interstate-75 and the U.S. Highway 280. Monetary damage to roads and property was estimated to be at least $50,000.
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$50,000	The Crisp County Emergency Management Director reported that numerous trees and several power lines were blown down within the city of Cordele. Roof damage was also reported to several buildings at the Turtons Shopping Center and an adjacent shopping center. The majority of the damage occurred between the intersections of 16th Avenue and 19th Street and between 3rd Street and 17th Avenue, or very near the intersection of Georgia Highway 30 and U.S. Highway 41.
May 2006	Lightning	Cordele	$50,000	The Cordele Dispatch reported that lightning struck a couple of large pine trees adjacent to a home in the city of Cordele. The lightning traveled through the electrical outlets setting a bedroom of the home on fire. Before the fire could be extinguished, the bedroom was completely destroyed. In a separate incident, lightning also struck an electrical transformer on a power pole and set it on fire. However, this fire was quickly extinguished.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees, power lines and large tree limbs throughout Cordele. Several power outages were reported throughout Cordele and lasted for approximately three hours. Several homes along Tremont Road and in the Omar Heights subdivision sustained minor damage from the high wind and falling tree limbs. Most of the damage was confined to roofs and broken windows.
December 2014	Flash Flood	Cordele	$35,000	The Crisp County emergency manager reported significant overflowing of ditches and small creeks which were flooding several roads in the Cordele area. A few motorists became stranded in their cars due to the high water. The flood waters surrounded a few homes in the Second Avenue and Third Street section of town. The water level reached the foundations, but did not enter the houses.
August 2007	Lightning	Cordele	$25,000	The Crisp County Emergency Management Director reported that lightning struck a home starting a fire in the electrical system. The home sustained at least minor damage.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$25,000	The Crisp County 911 Center reported that a portion of a roof of a tire business was blown off. Part of the roof landed on a nearby power line causing it to come down. In addition, 10 to 15 trees were blown down around the city and a couple of other power lines were also down as a result of downed trees.
April 2005	Hail	Cordele	$18,000	A trained spotter reported golf ball-sized hail just each of Cordele, while the public reported nickel-sized hail in Cordele.
February 2020	Flash Flood	Cordele	$15,000	The Emergency Manager reported rising water was threatening a home near the intersection of Ogburn Road and Stewart Street. Radar estimates indicate that 2 to 3.5 inches of rain fell over the area, falling on already saturated soils, causing flash flooding.
October 2019	Tornado (EF0)	Cordele	$15,000	A National Weather Service survey determined an EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 75 mph and a maximum path width of 100 yards touched down between Market Avenue and Highway 41, toppling and overturning a shed off of blocks and lifting part of a metal roof off an industrial building. The tornado traveled north across Market Avenue, Seedling Drive and Drayton Lane to Highway 41 north of Steele Road, downing a few trees along the way. The tornado then turned northeast across Highway 41 and then Farmers Market Road downing several more trees before lifting near a pond west of Slim Road and south of Murray Road. [10/19/19: Tornado #1, County #1/1, EF-0, Crisp, 2019:028].
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$15,000	The Crisp County Emergency Management Director reported that dozens of trees and power lines were down across the county.
January 2010	Flash Flood	Cordele	$10,000	The Crisp County Emergency Management Director reported flash flooding, once again in the Cedar Creek Subdivision of Cordelle. The flooding was largely the result of high water from adjacent Cedar Creek and overflow water from Cedar Creek Lake. This was the same area that experienced flash flooding in December 2009. Water approached the foundations of several homes in the subdivision. The crawl spaces of several homes were flooded as a result causing minor damage to property.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$10,000	The Crisp County Emergency Management Director reported that at least 20 trees were down in the southwest part of the county, just northwest of Marshall along Cork Ferry Road. The Cordele Dispatch reported that several trees were down and a stretch of power line was down from Ferry Landing Road to the area around Lincolm Pinch. At least 300 customers were left without power. Several other trees were down in the north portion of the county, north of Cordele along U.S. Highway 41.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$10,000	Crisp county 911 reported a trailer blown over and destroyed.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds caused structural damage to at least 5 homes when tree limbs fell on them. Several large trees were also downed on power lines and covering roads. Two hundred people were without power for several hours .
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked power lines down near Georgia Highway 257. A convenience store roof was also pulled off by the winds.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$5,000	Crisp county 911 reported 10 trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds.
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew off a tin roof on an out building along Braintree Road, 8 miles northeast of Cordele in Northeast Crisp County. The roof fell onto power lines which resulted in scattered power outages along Braintree Road.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$5,000	Several large trees were downed along Georgia Highway 300.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$3,500	The Crisp county 911 center reported that two trees were blown down on Presley Road. Another tree was blown down on a house on Canary street.
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$3,000	The Crisp County 911 Center reported that five trees and one power line were down across the county. A large sign was also damaged in Cordele.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$2,000	The Dooly County Emergency Management Director reported that at least six trees were down on the northwest side of Cordele from there toward the Dooly county line as the result of a thunderstorm wind gust. One tree was also down near the intersection of U.S. Highway 41 and Georgia Highway 300 and at least one tree was down on Interstate-75 near Cordele. A couple of power lines were also down as a result of the downed trees.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$2,000	Crisp county 911 reported trees and power lines were knocked down by thunderstorm winds in Cordele. Crisp county power reported a pecan tree down in Arabi.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$1,500	The Crisp County 911 Center reported that six trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2008	Flood	Cordele	$1,000	The Cordele Dispatch reported that heavy rainfall, on the order of three to four inches during the early morning hours resulted in flooding of several streets and low lying areas. The most significant flooding occurred along a headwater branch of Gum Creek that passes through Old Hospital Park in Cordele. Flooding in this area resulted in an entire block of Second Avenue being flooded and closed throughout the day.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$1,000	The Crisp county 911 center reported that a few trees were blown down.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$1,000	The Crisp county 911 center reported that several trees were blown down.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$1,000	The Cordele Dispatch reported that wind blew a tree down on a power line, causing one portion of a neighborhood to be without power for an hour.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down five to 10 trees in Cordele and another was knocked down 10 miles southeast of Cordele. A funnel cloud was reported in the vicinity of the Crisp County High School. Over 20 homes lost power due to trees down on main power lines on Fleming Road and in the vicinity of 20th Avenue and Seventh Street.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked numerous trees down on power lines.
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$600	no account filed
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$500	The Crisp County 911 Center reported two trees down near Georgia Veteran's State Park.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$500	The Cordele county 911 center reported that two trees were blown down.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$500	Crisp county 911 reported trees were blown down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	$250	The Crisp county 911 center reported that one tree was blown down.
March 2020	Flood	Cordele	-	The Emergency Manager reported that small ponds and a creek behind the Cedar Lake Subdivision were flooding, threatening nearby homes. Radar estimates indicate that 5 to 6 inches of rain occurred in the area, falling on saturated soils, resulting in flooding.
July 2018	Hail	Cordele	-	The Crisp County Sheriffs Department reported quarter size hail in Cordele.
June 2013	Hail	Cordele	-	The Crisp County Emergency Manager reported dime sized hail in Cordele.
March 2010	Hail	Cordele	-	The public observed nickel-sized hail in Cordele and the Crisp County Emergency Management Director observed penny-sized hail near the intersection of U.S. Highway 41 and U.S. Highway 280.
May 2010	Hail	Cordele	-	A storm spotter observed quarter-sized hail across the far northeast part of Crisp county, approximately six miles northeast to east-northeast of Cordele.
December 2009	Flood	Cordele	-	The Crisp County Emergency Management Director reported that flash flooding evolved into several hours of general flooding in the Cedar Creek subdivision, just south of Cordele. The flooding was a result of continued high water from Swift Creek and Cedar Creek in the area. No additional monetary damage was incurred during this time period.
August 2006	Lightning	Cordele	-	The Cordele Dispatch reported that lightning struck the Crisp County Health Department. Electrical power was disrupted to part of the building. A number of computers, phones, and the air conditoning system also were taken out of service as a result of the lightning strike.
March 2005	Hail	Cordele	-	The Crisp County 911 Center reported penny-sized hail. The Cordele Dispatch reported penny-sized hail in Hatley.
August 2005	Hail	Cordele	-	The Crisp County 911 Center reported penny-sized hail.
May 2003	Heavy Rain	Cordele	-	The Crisp county 911 center reported that rainfall of nearly 6 inches since midnight had resulted in minor flooding of some roadways with localized flooding, particularly U.S. Highway 280.
May 2003	Hail	Cordele	-	The Crisp county 911 center reported penny-sized hail.
December 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele	-	The Crisp county 911 center reported that a lone tree was blown down.
December 2002	Flood	Cordele	-	The Crisp county 911 center reported that there was minor flooding of U.S. Highway 41/Georgia Highway 90 in low lying areas.
March 2000	Flash Flood	Cordele	-	Crisp county 911 reported several streets in Cordele closed because of high water. A newspaper reported over 4 inches of rain in a few hours. A car was swept into a drainage ditch and the driver climbed to safety.
May 1999	Hail	Cordele	-	The public reported dime size hail.
September 1998	Funnel Cloud	Cordele	-	The public reported a funnel cloud.
June 1998	Hail	Cordele	-	Several public reports indicated dime to as large as golf ball size hail fell in Cordele. The hail covered the yard at one house.
May 1998	Hail	Cordele	-	no account filed
March 1993	Hail	Cordele	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crisp County

Newspapers printed here

21,181 digitised pages

4 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 3,111 issues, 21,181 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
The Cordele Dispatch and Daily Sentinel	1920 to 1926
Cordele Daily Sentinel	19?? to 1920
The Cordele Dispatch	1926 to 1971
The Cordele Dispatch	19?? to 1920

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

3 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
US Post Office-Cordele	0.4 miles	1984
Cordele Commercial Historic District	0.5 miles	1989
Gillespie-Selden Historic District	0.9 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000339 in Record Group 79.
Crisp 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.