Turrentine Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Turrentine Historic District is a historic district in Gadsden, Alabama, United States. The district stretches along Turrentine Avenue and includes houses built during Gadsden's largest period of growth from 1891 through 1934.”
Wikipedia article Turrentine Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Etowah County · listed in 2005 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 300-633 Turrentine Ave., Gadsen, 35901
When was it listed? July 2005
Category. district
Census division. Gadsden
National Register reference number. 05000649 - 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

84 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Turrentine Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,594 acres in total. None started naturally. 47 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	47
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
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
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Etowah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Turrentine Historic District: 10 past producers, 9 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin, Aluminum, Sulfur. 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	Recorded
Republic Steel Corp. Plant	Sulfur	Past Producer
Anniston, Fort Payne, Ashville, Ala.	Kaolin, Aluminum	Occurrence	Bauxite, Kaolin
Ne Alabama Bauxite-Kaolin	Kaolin, Aluminum	Occurrence	Bauxite
Open Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Chert
Unnamed Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Quartz
Attalla Iron Ore Prospect No 1	Iron	Occurrence
Attalla Iron Ore Prospect No 2	Iron	Occurrence
Attalla Iron Ore Prospect No 3	Iron	Occurrence
Daisy Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Etowah Iron Ore Prospect N0 2	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Etowah 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Forrest Cemetery Chapel and Comfort Station	0.3 miles	1992
Eleventh Street School	0.6 miles	1984
Charles Gunn House	0.7 miles	1993
Gadsden Coca-Cola Bottling Plant	0.9 miles	2023
U.S. Post Office	1.1 miles	1976
Col. O. R. Hood House	1.1 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000649 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Etowah County	All 15 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.