Photograph of Andrews Chapel — Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

McIntosh Log Church

Built in 1860. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Andrews Chapel, also known as the McIntosh Log Church, is a historic Methodist church building in McIntosh, Alabama. It is one of only a few remaining log churches in the state.”
Wikipedia article Andrews Chapel (McIntosh, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1860.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. S of McIntosh off U.S. 43, McIntosh, 36553
When was it listed? November 1974
Category. building
Census division. McIntosh
When was it built? 1860
National Register reference number. 74000439 - 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

837 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 837 fires within 5 miles of McIntosh Log Church between 1994 and 2020, burning about 17,215 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 391 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	391
Debris and open burning	199
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	184
Recreation and ceremony	33
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Smoking	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	138 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150904-001
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	69 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	303 ROBERTS ROAD MCINTOSH, AL
30 September 2008	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Debris and open burning	27 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of McIntosh Log Church: 2 prospects, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Bromine, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Mcintosh Salt Dome	Bromine	Producer	1945, 1953
Was 9 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
Nichols Works Plant	Salt	Plant
Olin Mathieson Salt Deposit	Salt	Prospect

Every working recorded in Washington 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000439 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 2 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.