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One of 189 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2010 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Tarrant City Downtown Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
The listing
- Address. Parts of E. Lake Blvd., Ford Ave., Jackson Blvd., Pinson St., Wharton Ave., Tarrant, 35217
- When was it listed? April 2010
- Category. district
- Census division. Birmingham
- National Register reference number. 09000105 - 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
64 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Tarrant City Downtown Historic District between 1994 and 2019, burning about 673 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 21 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 | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 7.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190926-8 |
| 24 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | NER-20150924-001 |
| 19 September 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 4309 SUNFLOWER STREET, AL |
| 12 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Tarrant City Downtown Historic District: 8 past producers, 6 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citadel Cement Operation | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Dolcito Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Bald Eagle Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Hammond Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Hammond, Dago, Hendona, and Valleyview Mines | Iron | Past Producer | Hematite | |
| Helen Bess Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Irondale Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Ruffner Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1887, 1955 | |
| Ruffner Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed | Iron | Unknown |
Storms near this property
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tarrant, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2007: 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1996 | Flash Flood | Tarrant | $65,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tarrant | $2,000 | Several trees were blown down in and around the city of Tarrant. |
| August 1997 | Lightning | Tarrant | $2,000 | Lightning struck a tree next to a house and ran into the house. It caused damage to the television and air conditioner. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Tarrant | - | Penny size hail was observed in Tarrant City. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Tarrant | - | Penny size hail was reported in Tarrant City just east of Birmingham. |
| December 2000 | Hail | Tarrant | - | Dime size hail or larger was observed in Tarrant and Fultondale. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Tarrant | - | Dime size hail fell about 5 miles north of the Birmingham International Airport near Tarrant. |
| March 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Tarrant | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Shady Grove Baptist Church | 2.5 miles | 2005 |
| New Rising Star Baptist Church | 2.6 miles | 2005 | |
 | St. Luke AME Zion Church | 2.8 miles | 2005 |
 | Bethel Baptist Church, Parsonage, and Guardhouse | 2.9 miles | 2005 |
 | First Baptist Church, Kingston | 2.9 miles | 2005 |
 | Fire Station No. 19 | 2.9 miles | 1990 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 09000105 in Record Group 79. |
| Jefferson County | All 189 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.