Malbis Plantation

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“Malbis is an unincorporated community in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. The community lies at the crossroads of U.S. 90 and Alabama State Route 181 just south of I-10.”
Wikipedia article Malbis, Alabama, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 61 National Register listings published here for Baldwin County · listed in 2011 · 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

Address. 10145 US 90, Daphne, 36526
When was it listed? May 2011
Category. district
Census division. Daphne
National Register reference number. 11000238 - 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

123 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Malbis Plantation between 1994 and 2020, burning about 894 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 26 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	36
Arson/incendiarism	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Recreation and ceremony	9
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Fireworks	1
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
30 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190926-4
20 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150920-009
9 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	26680 POLLARD ROAD, AL

Every fire recorded in Baldwin 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 Malbis Plantation: 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Kaolin, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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	Recorded
Bal 2 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
Unnamed Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Producer	Clay, Quartz
Y P S Kaolin Prospect	Kaolin	Prospect

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this property

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Daphne, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 10 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 lightning, 3 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2006	Lightning	Daphne	1 hurt, $15,000	A 65 year old female was praying for her families safe return from a Memorial Day trip to the beach when lightning struck nearby. She was standing next to her refrigerator when a ball of lightning exploded out of her kitchen floor. She was knocked to the floor and was found by her family a few minutes later. The lightning appeared to have struck across the street from her home and ran into the house through a water line. The lightning continued into her backyard and ripped open a small trench. Pieces of concrete were scattered throughout the kitchen. She said her dog had tried to block her way into the kitchen only minutes before the strike occurred. She refused to go to a hospital.
April 1996	Flash Flood	Daphne	$200,000	no account filed
January 1998	Lightning	Daphne	$100,000	Lightning struck a home just north of Daphne. The home caught on fire and burned to the ground. No one was home at the time of the fire.
October 2006	Lightning	Daphne	$30,000	Lightning struck the chimney on a home in Daphne. The strike caused a gas fire in the chimney that damaged the home.
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Daphne	$15,000	Strong thunderstorm winds damaged the roof of a condo.
December 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Daphne	$10,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees down and caused damage to cars and buses at Daphne Middle School.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Daphne	$10,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees across County Road 54.
December 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Daphne	$8,000	High winds from a thunderstorm blew down trees and power lines near Daphne.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Daphne	$5,000	High thunderstorm winds blew down trees in and around the community.
September 2000	Lightning	Daphne	$5,000	Lightning struck a tree outside a home and ran along a path into the home, where it knocked a man to the ground. The man was uninjured, but the lightning blew out several appliances in the home.
August 2001	Lightning	Daphne	$3,000	Lightning hit a gas line going into a home. The gas line ruptured and started a fire in the house. The fire department quickly extinguished the blaze.
July 1999	Lightning	Daphne	$3,000	Lightning struck a tree in the Lake Forest subdivision and travelled through a nearby house. The lightning knocked out many appliances in the home.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Daphne	$2,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph downed a power line down on Hwy. 31.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Daphne	$2,000	Several trees were blown down by high winds in the Daphne area.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Daphne	-	High winds downed in the Lake Forest community.
October 2022	Tornado (EF0)	Daphne	-	The tornado likely began south of Daphne Ave where light tree\|debris was noted. Sporadic light wind damage was noted before\|this location. The tornado then crossed Daphne Ave where it\|brought down a couple hardwoods including a couple significant\|snaps. However, the health of the trees were in question and\|given the lack of other damage indicators, especially to\|healthier trees, a lower bound damage rating was designated. A\|convergent path was noted here. albeit weak, it was noticeable.\|The tornado then crossed Randall Ave with some tree branches\|snapped and one uproot. One home lost some shingles before the\|tornado likely lifted north of Randall Ave.
May 2022	Tornado (EF1)	Daphne	-	A brief EF1 tornado first touched down just north of County Road 64,\|west of Capital Drive. A home at this location was damaged by an\|downed tree. The tornado then moved northeast and significantly\|damaged a large metal building at the intersection of Capital Drive\|and Rand Avenue, pulling exterior wall panels and brick facade from\|the east side of the building. The tornado also picked up two large\|metal sheds and tossed them in different directions. The tree damage\|in the area also displayed a convergent pattern. The tornado lifted\|near or just before it reached Public Works Road.
June 2022	Flash Flood	Daphne	-	Heavy rain caused Johnson Road between Main Street and Highway 98 to be closed.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Daphne	-	High winds downed a large tree a quarter of a mile south of Daphne on Highway 98.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Daphne	-	High winds downed trees along County Road 64 and CR 13.
May 2012	Flash Flood	Daphne	-	Highway 90 west of Highway 13 closed due to water over the road.
August 2005	Lightning	Daphne	-	A student at Daphne High School was walking to his vehicle when lightning struck near him and knocked him to the ground. He was examined at the scene and refused to go to the hospital.
June 1999	Hail	Daphne	-	Nickel to dime size hail was reported near Daphne.
March 1995	Hail	Daphne	-	Golf ball-size hail was reported near Daphne.
March 1994	Hail	Daphne	-	A five-minute duration of nickel-size hail was reported by the Daphne Police Department. There was a significant outbreak of severe weather across north and central Alabama on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1994. The severe weather began in the morning around 0900 CST and continued throughout the day and into the nighttime hours. The weather affected Alabama in waves with four waves of weather moving through the state. In trying to unravel the events of the day after the fact, there is a great deal of confusion and uncertainty about the times of many events. This stems from the fact that these waves of severe weather moved over many of the same counties three or four times. Every attempt has been made to get this information as correct as possible. It is also possible that some smaller events may not have been reported since there was so much attention drawn to the three major tornado events in Dekalb, St. Clair, Calhoun, Cherokee, and Shelby Counties.
June 2023	Hail	Daphne	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Daphne	-	no account filed
February 2008	Hail	Daphne	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Daphne	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Daphne	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Daphne	-	no account filed
March 2001	Hail	Daphne	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baldwin 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Jenkins Farm and House (Additional Documentation)	2.6 miles	2016
Jenkins Farm and House (Boundary Increase)	2.8 miles	2023
Lewis Starke House	4.7 miles	1990
George W. Cullum House	4.8 miles	1990
Methodist Episcopal Church, South	4.9 miles	1980
Texas, The	5.0 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000238 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Baldwin County	All 61 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.