Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
From the record
“The SOWEGA Building or Southwest Georgia Melon Growers Association Building in Adel, Georgia at 100 South Hutchinson Avenue, at the corner with Fourth Street. It is three stories tall and made of red brick, built in a commercial style.”
Wikipedia article SOWEGA Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 3 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.90000546- 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
721 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 721 fires within 5 miles of SOWEGA Building
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,130 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 54 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
505
Equipment and vehicle use
80
Arson/incendiarism
54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
22
Natural
19
Misuse of fire by a minor
14
Railroad operations and maintenance
10
Smoking
10
Recreation and ceremony
7
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 SOWEGA Building: 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Adel, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 5 flash flood, 4 lightning.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A restaurant in downtown Adele at the intersection of Highway 37 and Highway 41 had its roof peeled back by downburst winds. Three homes were also damage by falling trees with one injury reported in one home due to a fallen tree. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
Thunderstorm winds severely damaged a manufacturing plant in Adel. Approximately 35,000 square feet of the building was destroyed while another 20,000 square feet was heavily damaged. In a trailer park in Adel, one trailer was flipped over and another had its roof removed.
Severe thunderstorm winds raked the Cook County Airport in Adel, damaging four planes and two hangars. The winds knocked out power to 1,000 Sparks residents. A few billboards near Interstate 75 were damaged.
The Colquitt Electric Membership Corporation reported numerous power poles and power lines down through portions of Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, and Lowndes counties.
There were a couple of downed power lines as well as one tree that fell on a vehicle. In addition, a couple of tree tops broke off and landed on roofs.
Several county roads surrounding Adel were flooded. Two to four inches of rain fell in two hours, which caused a half-foot rise in the Little River basin. Reported by the Cook County EMA.
A stationary thunderstorm over Adel resulted in very heavy rainfall in a short period of time. Some streets had water up to a foot deep and were briefly closed.
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.
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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