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Photograph of Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site
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Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site

Built in 1998. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Macon County · listed in 1998 · category: Site · built in 1998, by United States Army.

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

The listing

  • Address. c/o Tuskegee Institute, PO Drawer 10, Tusgegee Institute, 36083
  • When was it listed? November 1998
  • Category. site
  • Census division. Tuskegee
  • When was it built? 1998
  • Architect. United States Army
  • National Register reference number. 01000284 - 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

279 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 279 fires within 5 miles of Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,780 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 78 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 burning85
Arson/incendiarism78
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Smoking36
Equipment and vehicle use14
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Natural3
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20170909-2
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20170909-3
9 September 1998Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2016Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160906-4
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1994Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Macon County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mac 1 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Chehaw PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Connor PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Macon 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.

Listed places nearby

6 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000284 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Macon CountyAll 14 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.