Cross Roads School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Brooks County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 40 Hodges Road, Dixie, 31629
When was it listed? July 2025
Category. building
Also known as. Rosenwald Schools in Georgia, 1912-1937
Census division. Quitman
National Register reference number. 100011993 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

238 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 238 fires within 5 miles of Cross Roads School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,170 acres in total. 3 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	174
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Arson/incendiarism	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
29 September 2003	Debris and open burning	7.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-BROOKS-010
21 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020THOMAS005
18 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Brooks County

Storms near this property

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dixie, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Dixie	$40,000	The tin roof on two chicken houses was removed and one large oak tree was blown down. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Dixie	$500	A large tree was blown down on Grooverville Road.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Dixie	$500	A few downed trees reported by Brooks County 911.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Dixie	-	A large tree was blown down at the intersection of Dixie Barwick Road and Highway 84.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Dixie	-	A tree was blown near Hodges Road.
March 2019	Hail	Dixie	-	The public estimated hail ranging from dime to quarter size in the Dixie area.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Dixie	-	Trees were blown down in the Dixie area.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Dixie	-	Two large trees were reported down on Hickory Head Road.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Dixie	-	no account filed
November 2025	Hail	Dixie	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brooks 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

6 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
Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery	6.1 miles	2004
Harris-Ramsey-Norris House	6.6 miles	2008
Brooks County Jail	7.1 miles	1982
Brooks County Courthouse	7.1 miles	1980
Quitman Historic District	7.2 miles	1982
Henry Gray Turner House and Grounds	7.9 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011993 in Record Group 79.
Brooks County	All 9 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.