Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
From the record
“Chickasaw Shipyard Village Historic District is a historic district comprising buildings and areas within Chickasaw, Alabama, which is a northern suburb of Mobile in Mobile County. The site is historically significant due to its role as a company town for the Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard during the first half of the twentieth century.”
Wikipedia article Chickasaw Shipyard Village Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 146 National Register listings published here for Mobile County · listed in 2004 · category: District.
National Register reference number.04000924- 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
61 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Chickasaw Shipyard Village Historic District
between 1994 and 2017, burning about 619 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 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
Arson/incendiarism
28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
16
Debris and open burning
7
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Natural
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
4 workings within 5 miles of Chickasaw Shipyard Village Historic District: 2 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Calcium. 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
Chickasaw, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 4 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado.
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.
An EF-0 intensity tornado produced a sporadic path of damage in Chickasaw. The tornado touched down just west northwest of Chickasaw High School, producing some minor tree|damage. The tornado crossed South Craft Highway, damaging the roofs of a couple of businesses. The tornado lifted east of Telegraph Road.
Lightning struck an old train caboose, which is used to house the Chickasaw Chamber of Commerce. The strike caused only minor damage, but the Chamber had to close for a couple of days while repairs were made.
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.
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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