Brantley Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Brantley Historic District in Brantley in Crenshaw County, Alabama, United States, is a 48.8 acres (19.7 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. It then included 112 contributing buildings and 15 non-contributing ones.”
Wikipedia article Brantley Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Crenshaw County · listed in 2004 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Sasser St, Fulton Ave., Peachtree St. and Wyatt, and Central of Georgia RR, Brantley, 36009
When was it listed? June 2004
Category. district
Census division. Brantley
National Register reference number. 04000558 - 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

55 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Brantley Historic District between 1994 and 2019, burning about 325 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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	25
Arson/incendiarism	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
31 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 May 2008	Debris and open burning	55 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	OFF U.S. HWY 331, AL
26 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190526-2
18 May 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 May 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 May 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	12839 OPP HWY, AL
14 May 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	12839 OPP HWY SOUTH OF BRANTLEY, AL
14 May 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	N.GRAVEL, AL

Every fire recorded in Crenshaw County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Brantley Historic District: 4 unknowns, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Cre 1 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
J S Layton Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Crenshaw County

Storms near this property

34 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brantley, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	$40,000	Winds estimated at 70 mph damaged multiple structures in Brantley.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	$30,000	no account filed
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	$25,000	A severe thunderstorm produced high winds that damaged a house and downed trees in Brantley.
December 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	$20,000	Trees were downed in Brantley and a roof was damaged.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	$15,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph partially removed a roof from a single family home. A tree was also blown over onto the house.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	$15,000	High winds from a thunderstorm blew part of a roof off a home near Weed (near the intersection of State Highway 141 and County Road 43).
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	$12,000	no account filed
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	$10,000	Winds estimated at 70 mph downed several trees in the Brantley area with some homes damaged. US Hwy 331 blocked due to downed trees.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	$10,000	Trees were blown down near Brantley by high winds from a thunderstorm. Dime size hail was also reported with the storm.
October 1995	Tornado (F0)	Brantley	$10,000	A tornado briefly touched down near Brantley on U.S. Highway 29. Several trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	$8,000	High winds from a thunderstorm blew trees down near Brantley.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	$5,000	High winds downed several trees along Spring Hill Road.
February 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	$5,000	A barn on Emmett Avenue was destroyed due to severe thunderstorm winds.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	$5,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees in Brantly.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	$5,000	High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees just west of Brantley.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	$3,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees in Brantley.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	$2,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees and power lines.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	$2,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees in Brantley.
February 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	-	Tree blocking US Hwy 331.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	-	High winds downed trees in Brantly causing damage to a house.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	-	High winds downed numerous trees and power lines.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	-	Multiple trees were downed in Brantley, AL.
March 2022	Hail	Brantley	-	Dime to Quarter size hail covering the ground.
November 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	-	High winds downed trees and power lines.
April 2021	Hail	Brantley	-	Crenshaw County EMA reports golf ball size hail.
April 2021	Hail	Brantley	-	Quarter to half dollar size hail reported near Brantley.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	-	High winds downed a tree near MM32 on Highway 189.
March 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	-	A large swath of damaging winds caused numerous reports of downed trees and power lines in and around Brantly.
March 2021	Tornado (EF1)	Brantley	-	The tornado first touched down at the corner of Glenwood Road and Melvin Wallace Road where it snapped an area of trees. The tornado then continued northeast across Nelvin Wallace Road where to reached peak intensity snapping several pines, uprooting several oak trees and removing the roof of an out building. Eventually the tornado lifted just south of N Brunson Chapel Road but nor before snapping a few more pine trees.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Brantley	-	Numerous trees were downed by a severe thunderstorm between Brantley and Luverne.
December 2009	Flash Flood	Brantley	-	Powell Road closed due to water covering the roadway.
March 2000	Hail	Brantley	-	Local EMA reported dime sized hail at Brantley.
May 1995	Hail	Brantley	-	Hail from half-inch to about dime-size was reported at Brantley.
December 2012	Funnel Cloud	Brantley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crenshaw 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 04000558 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crenshaw County	All 3 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.