Selma, Alabama

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Dallas County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 24 shown

• Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal ChurchNational Historic Landmark · listed 1982
• Cahabalisted 1973
• Carlowville Historic Districtlisted 1978
• Dallas County Courthouselisted 1975
• First Baptist Churchlisted 1979
• Icehouse Historic Districtlisted 1990
• Sullivan & Richie Jean Jackson Houselisted 2014
• Marshall's Grovelisted 1982
• John Tyler Morgan Houselisted 1972
• Old Town Historic Districtlisted 1978
• Old Town Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentationlisted 2003
• Wesley Plattenburg Houselisted 1993

Every listing in Dallas County

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 22 shown

• A. T. Mabry House, 629 Tremont Street, Selmafederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Bell-Bennett House, 412 Lauderdale Avenue, Selmafederal building survey, 2 photographs
• C. Jones House, 433 Lauderdale Avenue, Selmafederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Dallas Compress Company, 2010 Alabama Avenue, Selmafederal building survey, 18 photographs
• Dan Kenan House, Summerfield Road (County Road 37), Selmafederal building survey, 12 photographs
• Dawson-Vaughan House, 704 Tremont Street, Selmafederal building survey, 11 photographs
• Doctor Harper House, State Highway 219 & County Road 344, Selmafederal building survey, 6 photographs
• Dr. Kirkpatrick House, 601 Washington Street, Selmafederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Edmund Pettus Bridge, U.S. Highway 80 spanning the Alabama River, Selmafederal building survey, 4 photographs
• First Christian Church Property (House), 207 Franklin Street, Selmafederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Harvey L. McKee House, 911 Mabry Street, Selmafederal building survey, 5 photographs
• J. A. Minter & Son Plantation, 3 County Road 462, Selmafederal building survey, 21 photographs

Every surveyed structure in Dallas County

Selma fell from 20,756 to 17,971 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Selma quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Selma quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1975 USGS Selma quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Selma between 1994 and 2020, burning about 607 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Selmont
• Sunset Mill Village
• West Selmont
• Potter
• Brantley
• Manila

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Selma: 9 producers, 1 past producer. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Selma in 74 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 44 thunderstorm wind, 22 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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.

Every storm recorded in Dallas County

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 8,344 issues, 31,345 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.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 1 issue from 1865, 1,443 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 163940. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.