Sadler House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Sadler House is a frontier I-House with Georgian architectural elements in McCalla, Alabama. The original single pen log house was built by John Loveless, who moved to Alabama from South Carolina in 1816.”
Wikipedia article Sadler House (McCalla, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 189 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

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. 3 mi. S of McCalla on Eastern Valley Rd., McCalla, 35111
When was it listed? April 1975
Category. building
Census division. Greenwood
National Register reference number. 75000315 - 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

141 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Sadler House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,603 acres in total. None started naturally. 61 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	61
Debris and open burning	38
Recreation and ceremony	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2

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
9 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160909-3
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 1995	Arson/incendiarism	72 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190929-18

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Sadler House: 26 occurrences, 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Manganese, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
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
Red Ridge Area, Birmingham Distri	Iron	Past Producer
Unnamed Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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

6 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
Five Mile Creek Bridge	2.6 miles	1973
Owen Plantation House	2.9 miles	1976
Thomas McAdory House	4.8 miles	1972
Canaan Baptist Church	6.7 miles	2005
Dr. Thomas McAdory Owen House	6.9 miles	1982
Southern Railway Terminal Station	7.0 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000315 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.