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Anderson, D. B., and Company Building

Built in 1906. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Anderson and Company Building, also known as Segler Building, in Ochlocknee in Thomas County, Georgia, was built in 1906. It is a two-story commercial building built of load-bearing concrete blocks.”

Wikipedia article D. B. Anderson and Company Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Thomas County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1906.

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. E. Railroad and Brayton Sts., Ochlocknee, 31773
  • When was it listed? August 1982
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Ochlocknee
  • When was it built? 1906
  • National Register reference number. 82002485 - 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

409 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 409 fires within 5 miles of Anderson, D. B., and Company Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,308 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 59 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 burning232
Arson/incendiarism59
Railroad operations and maintenance56
Equipment and vehicle use31
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural5

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020THOMAS001
5 September 1997Debris and open burning2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Thomas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Anderson, D. B., and Company Building: 5 producers, 4 past producers, 1 plant. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Fullers Earth, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Feldspar. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Thomasville MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thomasville Mine & PlantFeldsparProducer
Meigs MineClayProducer
Simpson Mine & MillClayPlant
Cherokee Industries Ochlocknee MineFullers EarthPast Producer
Cooper Grover MineFullers EarthProducer
OchlockneeFullers EarthPast ProducerMontmorillonite, Attapulgite
Smith Mine Pit AFullers EarthProducer
Smith Mine Pit BFullers EarthProducer
Waverly Mineral ProductsFullers EarthPast ProducerMontmorillonite, Attapulgite

Every working recorded in Thomas County

Storms near this property

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ochlocknee, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1993Thunderstorm WindOchlocknee$500,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed two mobile homes, several barns and downed several trees in and around Ochlocknee. One business had its roof removed and a couple of truck trailers were overturned.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindOchlocknee$3,000A tree was blown down onto power lines resulting in a power outage.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindOchlocknee$3,000Multiple trees were blown down in the northwestern part of Thomas county. Monetary damage was estimated.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindOchlocknee$1,000A tree was blown down onto a power line on Steward Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindOchlocknee$1,000A couple of trees were blown down near Ochlocknee.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindOchlocknee-A tree was blown down near the intersection of Maddox Road and Malloy Road.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindOchlocknee-A tree was blown down in Ochlocknee.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindOchlocknee-Trees were blown down along Highway 3.
March 2019HailOchlocknee-Quarter size hail was reported near Ochlocknee.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindOchlocknee-Multiple trees were blown down across Thomas county.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindOchlocknee-A tree was blown down in Ochlocknee.
March 2005HailOchlocknee-Penny size hail reported along Highway 3 by a SKYWARN storm spotter.
May 2024HailOchlocknee-no account filed
March 2022HailOchlocknee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Thomas 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 82002485 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Thomas CountyAll 44 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.
  • 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.