Photograph of Wheeler Dam — Photograph by Tennessee Valley Authority, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Wheeler Hydroelectric Project

Built in 1933. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

“Wheeler Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River between Lauderdale County and Lawrence County, Alabama. It is one of nine dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the mid-1930s as part of a New Deal-era initiative to improve navigation on the river and bring flood control and economic development to the region.”
Wikipedia article Wheeler Dam, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 2016 · category: District · built in 1933.

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

The listing

Address. 24455 AL 101, Rogersville, 35652
When was it listed? July 2016
Category. district
Also known as. Tennessee Valley Authority Hydroelectric System, 1933-1979 MPS
When was it built? 1933
National Register reference number. 16000431 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

55 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Wheeler Hydroelectric Project between 1994 and 2016, burning about 364 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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	18
Arson/incendiarism	16
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	4

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
4 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Goode-Hall House	5.6 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000431 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lawrence County	All 12 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.