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Photograph of Ellicott's Stone
Photograph by Altairisfar, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Ellicott Stone

Built in 1799. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Ellicott's Stone, also known as the Ellicott Stone, is a boundary marker in northern Mobile County, Alabama. It was placed on April 10, 1799, by a joint U.S.-Spanish survey party headed by Andrew Ellicott.”

Wikipedia article Ellicott's Stone, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 146 National Register listings published here for Mobile County · listed in 1973 · category: Object · built in 1799.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1 mi. S of Bucks off U.S. 43, Bucks, 36512
  • When was it listed? April 1973
  • Category. object
  • Census division. Mount Vernon
  • When was it built? 1799
  • National Register reference number. 73000359 - 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

166 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Ellicott Stone between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,329 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 91 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/incendiarism91
Debris and open burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140907-001
27 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2015Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150902-002
2 September 2015Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150902-003
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ellicott Stone: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Axis MineSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProducerClay, Quartz

Every working recorded in Mobile County

Storms near this property

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bucks, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2001Thunderstorm WindBucks$25,000Strong thunderstorm winds produced minor damage to a manufactured home on Highway 43 near Bucks. Slightly more significant damage to a nearby outbuilding and a small boat which was sitting near the outbuilding also occurred.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindBucks$5,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts produced roof damage to a home across from the Bucks Post Office.
August 2000HailBucks-A thunderstorm produced golfball sized hail in the community.
May 1999HailBucks-Dime size hail was reported along US Highway 43 near Bucks.

Every storm recorded in Mobile 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Mount Vernon Arsenal-Searcy Hospital Complex6.2 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73000359 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mobile CountyAll 146 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.