Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
From the record
“The Uniontown Historic District is a historic district in Uniontown, Alabama. It is roughly bounded by Tomasene Street, Taylor Street, East Avenue, and Green Street.”
Wikipedia article Uniontown Historic District (Uniontown, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 22 National Register listings published here for Perry County · listed in 2000 · category: District.
National Register reference number.00000137- 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
44 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Uniontown Historic District
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 486 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
13
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Arson/incendiarism
5
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Smoking
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
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 National Weather Service names
Uniontown, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 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.
A tornado touched down in Smith County, Mississippi and tracked through Jasper and Clarke Counties (See Storm Data Jackson), where it caused EF4 rated damage. The tornado then crossed into Choctaw County (See Storm Data Mobile) Alabama, where it caused EF3 rated damage. The tornado tracked across portions of Sumter, Marengo and western Perry Counties, before it dissipated. The tornado crossed into Perry County north of Uniontown and produced significant tree damage. The tornado crossed AL Hwy 183, where it damaged two outbuildings and destroyed a grain silo. The tornado lifted east of AL Hwy 183, northeast of Uniontown.
A small tornado touched down just southwest of Uniontown in an open area and traveled north-northeast across the western portions of Uniontown. The tornado ended just north-northwest of Uniontown in an open area. The tornado tore shingles off several houses in the southwest section of Uniontown in addition to downing trees and power lines. The tornado did similar damage to residential structures in the northwest portion of Uniontown. A one-story apartment complex lost a portion of it's roof. Several trees fell on homes and blocked residential streets. Beginning: 32 26.587/87 31.219 End: 32 27.857/87 30.951
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
5 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.
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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