Asa Johnston Farmhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Asa Johnston Farmhouse is a historic farmhouse in Johnstonville, Alabama, United States. The one-story, spraddle roof dogtrot house was built in 1842 by Ezra Plumb for Asa Johnston.”
Wikipedia article Asa Johnston Farmhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Conecuh County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

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 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Johnston, Asa, Farmhouse - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Co.Rd. 29 .6 mi NW. of jct. with Co.Rd. 6, Johnsonville, 36401
When was it listed? May 2008
Category. building
Census division. Castleberry
National Register reference number. 08000455 - 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

83 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Asa Johnston Farmhouse between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,919 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 19 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Debris and open burning	26
Arson/incendiarism	19
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2006	Natural	1.7 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 July 2000	Natural	745 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Conecuh County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Asa Johnston Farmhouse: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Deposit	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Conecuh 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 08000455 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Conecuh County	All 4 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.