Belle Mina

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Belle Mina, known as Belmina during the 19th century, is a historic forced-labor farm and plantation house in Belle Mina, Alabama, United States. Completed in 1826, the Late Georgian-style house was built for Alabama's second governor, Thomas Bibb.”
Wikipedia article Belle Mina, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Limestone County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. S of Belle Mina on the Mooresville-Elkton Rd., Belle Mina, 35671
When was it listed? October 1972
Category. building
Census division. Mooresville
National Register reference number. 72000164 - 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

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Belle Mina between 1994 and 2019, burning about 405 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Arson/incendiarism	13
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	85 acres	Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge	FM 97-8
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190930-4
20 September 2019	Debris and open burning	28 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190920-27
19 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge	FM 97-9
16 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this property

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belle Mina, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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
March 1996	Flash Flood	Belle Mina	$18,000	no account filed
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Belle Mina	$4,000	Trees were blown down in the Belle Mina area.
April 2021	Hail	Belle Mina	-	Nickel sized hail was reported in Belle Mina.
February 2020	Flood	Belle Mina	-	Car submerged in floodwaters off of Mooresville Road close to Highway 20. Report relayed via social media.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Belle Mina	-	Multiple trees were knocked down in Belle Mina close to the railroad tracks. Time estimated from radar.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Belle Mina	-	Power lines were knocked down.
November 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Belle Mina	-	Trees and power lines were knocked down at the intersection of Garret Road and Mooresville Road.
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Belle Mina	-	Eight power poles snapped along Highway 20, near Greenbrier exit.
December 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Belle Mina	-	RECORDED AT KDCU (PRYOR FIELD) ASOS
August 2000	Hail	Belle Mina	-	Nickel size hail fell near the intersection of I65 and I565, near Belle Mina.
January 1999	Funnel Cloud	Belle Mina	-	A funnel cloud was reported near Belle Mina.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Belle Mina	-	Several trees were reported down on Power Road in Belle Mina. A power pole was broken by the wind in Greenbrier. Two airplanes were flipped over by the wind at the Mooresville Airport east of the city.

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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

4 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
Woodside	0.6 miles	1982
Mooresville	1.5 miles	1972
Mooresville	1.5 miles	1972
Cotton Hill	6.1 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000164 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Limestone County	All 15 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.
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.