West Point Public School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Troup County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.

Sources: 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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Ave. F and E. 8th St., West Point, 31833
When was it listed? April 1999
Category. building
Census division. West Point
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
Architect. Dennis & Dennis
National Register reference number. 99000411 - 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

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of West Point Public School between 1992 and 2017, burning about 516 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 31 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	68
Arson/incendiarism	31
Recreation and ceremony	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	7
Smoking	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	1

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 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2014	Debris and open burning	3.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-HARRIS-002
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TROUP-004

Every fire recorded in Troup County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of West Point Public School: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Rockford Placer	Gold	Past Producer
	Rockford Placer	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Troup 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
Eastside Historic District	0.1 miles	2012
Hawkes Children's Library of West Point	0.5 miles	1990
Riverside Club-Magnolia Club	0.5 miles	2015
West Point Freight Depot	0.6 miles	2005
West Point Commercial Historic District	0.6 miles	2006
Westside Historic District	0.7 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000411 in Record Group 79.
Troup County	All 35 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.