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One of 189 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2019 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Palmerdale Homesteads Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
The listing
- Address. Parts of Miles Springs, N. & S. Valley, Brookwood, Southfield N. & S., Midwood, Marsh Mountain & W. Hill Rds., Helms Cir. & AL 75, Pinson, 35126
- When was it listed? November 2019
- Category. district
- Census division. Palmerdale
- National Register reference number. 100004642 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
158 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Palmerdale Homesteads Historic District between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,443 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 48 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 burning | 64 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 48 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160924-7 |
| 18 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 28 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Palmerdale Homesteads Historic District: 21 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jef 3 Clay Prospect | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Blount Mountain Area | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Compton Area Mine | Iron | Past Producer | Hematite | |
| Compton Iron Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Tarrant | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
18 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinson, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 11 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pinson | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pinson | $7,000 | Several trees were blown down in and around Pinson. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pinson | $3,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down, and a tree caught on fire, on Old Springville and Clay Roads. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pinson | $2,000 | A few trees and power lines were blown down on Jackson Road in Pinson. |
| April 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Pinson | - | Reported in the Village Springs Community along SR 75. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Pinson | - | Penny to quarter sized hail fell for several minutes. |
| May 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Pinson | - | A funnel cloud was reported over Pinson. Several other funnel clouds were reported across Jefferson County. |
| February 2001 | Hail | Pinson | - | Quarter size hail fell in Pinson. |
| February 2000 | Hail | Pinson | - | Dime size hail was reported near the Pinson Valley High School. |
| March 2000 | Hail | Pinson | - | Several reports of nickel to quarter size hail were received in and around the city of Pinson. |
| December 2000 | Hail | Pinson | - | Penny size hail was observed in Pinson and Fultondale. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Pinson | - | Dime size hail was reported in Pinson. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Pinson | - | Dime size hail was reported in Pinson by storm spotters. |
| March 2021 | Hail | Pinson | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Pinson | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Pinson | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Pinson | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Funnel Cloud | Pinson | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Pinson Hills Historic District | 4.1 miles | 2016 |
 | Pinson Main Street Historic District | 4.4 miles | 2016 |
| Cahaba Homestead Village Historic District | 7.9 miles | 2006 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004642 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.