Robert G. Griffith Sr. House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“House is a historic house near Summit, Alabama, United States. As the only surviving early I-house in Blount County, the dwelling is representative of the residence of a financially comfortable agricultural family in the Appalachian region of Alabama.”
Wikipedia article Robert G. Griffith Sr. House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Blount County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Griffith, Robert G., Sr., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1204 Cty. Rd. 25, Summit, 35976
When was it listed? March 2000
Category. building
Census division. Brooksville
National Register reference number. 00000143 - 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

87 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Robert G. Griffith Sr. House between 1995 and 2020, burning about 787 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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	43
Arson/incendiarism	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200905-1
4 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160929-8
28 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Blount 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 Robert G. Griffith Sr. House: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
	D and R Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Glover Manganese Prospect	Manganese	Prospect	1942

Every working recorded in Blount County

Storms near this property

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summit, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Summit	$22,000	A mobile home was damaged and a tree was blown onto a house in northern Blount County around Summit. Trees and power lines were down along Highway 132 between Oneonta and Altoona.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Summit	$4,000	One tree down across county highway 25 at Hinds Road.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Summit	$4,000	Several trees were blown down in the vicinity of Highway 79 and mile marker 53.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Summit	$2,000	A tree was blown down across Alabama Highway 67.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Summit	$2,000	A few trees and power lines were blown down, near the Summit community.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Summit	$2,000	Several trees were blow down in the Rainbow Crossing area, near the intersection of US-231 and US-278.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Summit	$500	A tree was blown down on Roswell Creek Road.
June 2023	Hail	Summit	-	Nickel size hail reported along Highway 231 north of Summit.
March 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Summit	-	Several trees uprooted near the town of Summit.
May 2003	Hail	Summit	-	Quarter size hail was observed in extreme northern Blount County. The hail fell in an area just east of US 231 near the Cullman and Marshall County line. A few trees were also blown down.
February 2011	Hail	Summit	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blount 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000143 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Blount County	All 5 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.
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.