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One of 189 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1973 · category: Structure · built in 1911.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Five Mile Creek Bridge
Built in 1911. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1 mi. NE of McCalla off U.S. 11, McCalla, 35022
- When was it listed? February 1973
- Category. structure
- Census division. Birmingham
- When was it built? 1911
- National Register reference number. 73000350 - 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
204 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Five Mile Creek Bridge between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,092 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 99 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 99 |
| Debris and open burning | 55 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
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 1995 | Smoking | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190906-5 |
| 6 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 72 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 14 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 36 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Five Mile Creek Bridge: 24 occurrences, 8 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Manganese, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dolonah Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Mine No. 53 | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Producer | ||
| R C Coleman Prospect | Iron, Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Bessemer Mine | Clay | Producer | ||
| Bessemer Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| No Name | Iron | Past Producer | Hematite | |
| O A Griffin Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Potter Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Potter No. 1 Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Raimund Mine | Iron | Past Producer | Hematite |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owen Plantation House | 2.2 miles | 1976 | |
 | Sadler House | 2.6 miles | 1975 |
 | Thomas McAdory House | 3.5 miles | 1972 |
 | Canaan Baptist Church | 4.8 miles | 2005 |
| Dr. Thomas McAdory Owen House | 5.2 miles | 1982 | |
| Downtown Bessemer Historic District | 5.3 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 73000350 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.