Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
From the record
“The Bridgeport Historic District is a historic district in Bridgeport, Alabama, United States. Founded in the 1810s as a farming community, Bridgeport became a major transportation hub with the coming of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad and Southern Railway in the 1850s, in addition to its Tennessee River port.”
Wikipedia article Bridgeport Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2002 · category: District.
National Register reference number.02000479- 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
112 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Bridgeport Historic District
between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,972 acres in total. None started naturally. 46 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
47
Arson/incendiarism
46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
15
Recreation and ceremony
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Equipment and vehicle use
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 federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Bridgeport Historic District: 2 plants, 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 prospect.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Limestone, General, Iron, Silica, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Bridgeport, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 29 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain.
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.
Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down in the city of Bridgeport and the surrounding areas. Numerous power outages were reported in the area. One tree was knocked onto a home on Dr. Lee Avenue in Bridgeport.
A detached garage of a home was destroyed, toppling metal sheeting onto a parked vehicle. Several tree branches were also snapped. Time of gust front/outflow was estimated by radar.
Thunderstorm winds blew down a very large Pecan tree onto a car and home off of Gunter Avenue in Bridgeport. Some significant damage occurred on the front of the house from the fallen tree. Damage to the nearby car appeared to be minor.
Thunderstorm winds along and just behind a gust front knocked down a large oak tree and a power pole at 8th Street at Broadway in Bridgeport. A street sign was damaged as well. Power was interrupted for about thirty minutes. Time estimated.
Strong to severe thunderstorms caused two to three feet of water to accumulate over Broadway Avenue between 8th and 9th Street. Other streets that were impacted included: Bleeker Street, Aldhouse Avenue, and Moore Avenue.
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
1 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.
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.
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