James Greer Bankhead House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The James Greer Bankhead House, also known simply as the Greer Bankhead House and Forest Home, is a historic house in Sulligent, Alabama. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 13, 1975.”
Wikipedia article James Greer Bankhead House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Lamar 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Bankhead, James Greer, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Wolf Rd., Sulligent, 35586
When was it listed? February 1975
Category. building
Census division. Sulligent
National Register reference number. 75000316 - 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

68 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of James Greer Bankhead House between 1994 and 2019, burning about 351 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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
Debris and open burning	22
Arson/incendiarism	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	2
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190916-6
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	22 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160910-4
1 September 2016	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160901-3
8 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160808-1
28 August 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Lamar 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 James Greer Bankhead House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Mixon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this property

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sulligent, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 lightning, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2005	Lightning	Sulligent	1 hurt	One man was struck by lightning in his home. The man suffered minor injuries. Numerous additional lightning strikes were reported in northeast Lamar County.
August 2002	Lightning	Sulligent	$90,000	Lightning was believed to be the cause of a house fire on US 278 just west-southwest of the center of Sulligent. The fire was reported at 6:45 pm CDT and the house was fully engulfed when the Sulligent Volunteer Fire Department arrived. The house was a total loss.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulligent	$45,000	Trees were reported down between Fernbank and Millport in southern Lamar County. Half dollar to golf ball-size hail along with smaller hail was reported at Crossville in eastern Lamar County. Dime-size hail was reported at Vernon. Trees were downed in Sulligent including at least one that fell onto a mobile home. Several trees fell on cars on Mulberry Road south of Sulligent and about three-fourths of the city was without power at one time.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulligent	$22,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down in and around the city of Sulligent. The most concentrated damage was on the west side of town. Small hail also accompanied the storm.
March 2000	Hail	Sulligent	$10,000	A severe thunderstorm tracked across northern Lamar County and dropped hail from the size of dimes to the size of golfballs. In many locations, the hail covered the ground. The path at times was 1 to 2 miles wide and 14 miles long. Most of the hail fell in a rural area.
April 2005	Hail	Sulligent	$9,000	Golf ball size hail was reported in Sulligent.
October 1996	Hail	Sulligent	$7,000	no account filed
March 2006	Tornado (F0)	Sulligent	$6,000	An F0 briefly touched down approximately 4 miles east of the Alabama/Mississippi state line. This location was about 1.5 miles south of Sulligent Lake or 4.3 miles southwest of Sulligent. The tornado tracked east-northeast where it partially damaged two barn roofs. This supercell thunderstorm had a funnel cloud or wall cloud associated with it during its entire lifecycle across northern Lamar County. No additional evidence of another tornado touchdown or damage was found or reported.
February 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulligent	$5,000	Trees were downed in Sulligent.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulligent	$5,000	Trees and power lines were down in Sulligent.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulligent	$2,000	Several trees were blown down along Boy Scout Road and Mulberry Road near Sulligent.
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulligent	$2,000	no account filed
November 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulligent	$1,000	A large tree was blown down, blocking the road just south of Sulligent.
April 2005	Hail	Sulligent	$1,000	Half dollar size hail was reported in the Crews community.
July 2005	Flash Flood	Sulligent	$1,000	High Springs Road and Finch Loop were closed due to high water.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulligent	-	Numerous trees uprooted and power lines downed throughout the city of Sulligent.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulligent	-	Multiple trees uprooted in Sulligent.
February 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulligent	-	Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in the city of Sulligent.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulligent	-	Several trees uprooted in the town of Sulligent.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulligent	-	Several trees uprooted in the Sulligent area.
February 2007	Flash Flood	Sulligent	-	Highway 17 was temporarily closed due to flash flooding.
April 1995	Hail	Sulligent	-	Quarter-size hail was reported three miles west of Sulligent.
April 1995	Hail	Sulligent	-	Dime- to quarter-size hail was reported by the Lamar County Sheriff's Department in Sulligent and Vernon. A funnel cloud was also reported near Vernon.
November 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulligent	-	The Lamar County Sheriff's office reported trees blown down between Kennedy and Sulligent about 4 miles southeast of Sulligent.
November 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulligent	-	Lamar County Sheriff's office reported trees down near Sulligent.
May 2006	Hail	Sulligent	-	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	Sulligent	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lamar 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 75000316 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lamar County	All 1 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.