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Photograph of North Central Historic District
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North Central Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The North Central Historic District in Alexander City, Alabama, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.”

Wikipedia article North Central Historic District (Alexander City, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Tallapoosa 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

Fires near this property

119 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of North Central Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 690 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 29 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 burning49
Arson/incendiarism29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140919-001
19 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190913-9
12 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140912-001
12 September 2010Debris and open burning9.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Tallapoosa County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of North Central Historic District: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Duncan ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Hillabee Plant and Pit Number 1ClayProducer
Rockford AreaFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Tallapoosa 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000833 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tallapoosa CountyAll 9 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.