Summerfield, Alabama

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 1 record

• Summerfield Districtlisted 1982

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 13 shown

• Blacksmith Shop, Centenary & Main Streets, Summerfieldfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Boys' Methodist College, Centenary & Main Streets, Summerfieldfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Childers-Tate House, Centenary Street, Summerfieldfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Hudson Summer House, County Road 37, Summerfieldfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• King House, Centenary Street, Summerfieldfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Main Street (Bank Building), Summerfieldfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Methodist Episcopal Church, College Street, Summerfieldfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Moore House, Persimmon Street, Summerfieldfederal building survey, 6 photographs
• Sturdivant-Moore-Hartley House, Centenary & Main Streets, Summerfieldfederal building survey, 8 photographs
• Summerfield College, Dr. Hudson Building, College Street, Summerfieldfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Summerfield College, Dr. Jackson Building, Main & College Streets, Summerfieldfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Summerfield College, Main Building, Main & College Streets, Summerfieldfederal building survey, 2 photographs

Every surveyed structure in Dallas County

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
• 1959 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1975 USGS Summerfield SE quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:24000

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 115 fires within 5 miles of Summerfield between 1994 and 2020, burning about 499 acres in total. 1 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:

• Stonewall
• Valley Creek Junction
• Potter
• Selma
• Sunset Mill Village
• Valley Grande

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summerfield in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Dallas County

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 160692. 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.

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.