Shoal Creek Club

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.

From the record

“Shoal Creek Club is an invitation-only private golf club in the southeastern United States, located in Shelby County, Alabama, southeast of Birmingham. Opened 49 years ago in 1977, the course was designed by Jack Nicklaus and is rated as the top golf course in the state.”
Wikipedia article Shoal Creek Club, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Shelby County · listed in 2022 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 100 New Williamsburg Dr., Shoal Creek, 35242
When was it listed? December 2022
Category. district
Census division. Chelsea
National Register reference number. 100008439 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

70 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Shoal Creek Club between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,924 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 13 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	29
Arson/incendiarism	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 1995	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190905-6
5 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190905-8
4 September 1995	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	92 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160925-13
17 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Shelby 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 Shoal Creek Club: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Birmingham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Shelby 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 100008439 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Shelby County	All 13 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.