Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
From the record
“The Brierfield Furnace, also known as the Bibb Naval Furnace and Brierfield Ironworks, is a 486-acre (197 ha) historic district in Brierfield, Alabama, United States, that includes one building and nine sites. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 1974.”
Wikipedia article Brierfield Furnace, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Bibb County · listed in 1974 · category: District.
National Register reference number.74000401- 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
140 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Brierfield Furnace
between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,527 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 52 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
52
Debris and open burning
46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
22
Recreation and ceremony
7
Smoking
3
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Natural
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Fireworks
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
15 workings within 5 miles of Brierfield Furnace: 6 past producers, 4 unknowns, 2 prospects, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Barium-Barite, Clay, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Brierfield, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
Numerous trees were blown down or uprooted in the Brierfield Ironworks Historical State Park. The Lindsey Cabin, which dates back to the 1800's, was damaged by fallen trees. A few others structures at the park also sustained damage due to fallen trees. No campers were injured on this holiday weekend.
Heavy rainfall in a short period of time caused flooding in and around Brierfield. A local fire station reported five inches of rain in a few hours. Several roads were temporarily closed due to high water.
National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in east Bibb County and determined that it was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 90 mph.||The tornado began on the eastern edge of Brierfield Ironworks Park where several trees were uprooted. The tornado continued eastward and crossed State Route 139. At this location, dozens of trees were snapped and uprooted in the immediate vicinity of Mahan Creek. The tornado tracked eastward and damaged a barn on the Bridlewood Farms property before dissipating just west of County Road 1053.
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
2 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.
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.
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