Ackerville Baptist Church of Christ

Built in 1848 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Ackerville Baptist Church of Christ is a historic Baptist Church of Christ building in Ackerville, Alabama. The one-story Greek Revival style church was built in 1848.”
Wikipedia article Ackerville Baptist Church of Christ, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Wilcox County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · built in 1848, Greek Revival architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. AL 89, Ackerville, 36726
When was it listed? April 2003
Category. building
Census division. Pine Apple
When was it built? 1848
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 03000228 - 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

36 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Ackerville Baptist Church of Christ between 1994 and 2019, burning about 256 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.7 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.1 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Wilcox 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute	2.2 miles	1995
Furman Historic District	6.3 miles	1999
Oak Hill Historic District	7.7 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000228 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wilcox County	All 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.