Thomas, 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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Thomas Historic Districtlisted 1989 · 0.3 miles away
• Thomas By-Product Coke Works Historic Districtlisted 1995 · 0.5 miles away

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 22 shown

• 214 Second Street (House), Thomasfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• 219 Second Street (House), Thomasfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• 223 Second Street (House), Thomasfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• 303 Third Street (House), Thomasfederal building survey, 6 photographs
• 355 Third Street (House), Thomasfederal building survey, 7 photographs
• St. Mark's Catholic Church, 1040 Tenth Avenue West, Thomasfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Thomas By-Product Coke Works, 1200 Tenth Street West, Thomasfederal building survey, 136 photographs
• Thomas By-Product Coke Works, Bathhouse, 1200 Tenth Street West, Thomasfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Thomas By-Product Coke Works, Foreman's Office, 1200 Tenth Street West, Thomasfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Thomas By-Product Coke Works, Gatehouse & Weigh Station, 1200 Tenth Street West, Thomasfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Thomas By-Product Coke Works, Main Office, 1200 Tenth Street West, Thomasfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Thomas By-Product Coke Works, Power Plant, 1200 Tenth Street West, Thomasfederal building survey, 2 photographs

Every surveyed structure in Jefferson 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.

• 1889 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
• 1895 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1904 USGS Birmingham Coal District quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Birmingham Coal District quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1906 USGS Birmingham Special quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1975 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Birmingham North 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 74 fires within 5 miles of Thomas between 1993 and 2020, burning about 623 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 32 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:

• East Thomas
• East Thomas Gardens
• Pratt City
• Acipcoville
• Fountain Heights
• Graymont

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Thomas: 9 past producers, 4 plants, 4 unknowns, 3 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Jefferson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thomas in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Jefferson County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 127857. 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.