Boshell's Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Boshell's Mill is the historic site of a gristmill and sawmill on Lost Creek near Townley in rural Walker County, Alabama. The 4-acre (1.6 ha) site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.”
Wikipedia article Boshell's Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Walker County · listed in 1975 · category: District.

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 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Townley on AL 124, Townley, 35587
When was it listed? May 1975
Category. district
Census division. Townley
National Register reference number. 75000329 - 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

187 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Boshell's Mill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,481 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 88 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	88
Debris and open burning	52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	3
Other causes	3
Smoking	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
7 September 1999	Natural	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160906-5
6 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Storms near this property

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Townley, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 tornado. The reports record 7 deaths and 40 injuries. 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
November 2002	Tornado (F3)	Townley	7 killed, 40 hurt, $2,500,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Townley	$85,000	Thunderstorm wind downed trees and damaged the roof on the volunteer fire department building in Townley. A church sustained minor damage and the bleachers at the Townley School were blown over. One house behind the post office had five trees fall on it. Funnel clouds were reported in many places in and around the Jasper area, however, there was no evidence that any of them had touched down.
May 2003	Tornado (F1)	Townley	$21,000	The same storm that produced the tornado in Lamar County produced another F1 tornado in a heavily wooded area of southwestern Walker county southwest of Townley. At least one barn was damaged in addition to numerous trees that were downed.Beg: 33 48.191/87 29.891 End: 33 46.925/87 27.916
April 1998	Tornado (F0)	Townley	$10,000	Several trees were snapped and uprooted just north of Townley.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Townley	$2,000	Trees were knocked down and blown into the roadway.
April 2005	Hail	Townley	$1,000	Penny size hail was reported between Jasper and Carbon Hill along US 78. A few other locationsin northern Walker County also experienced dime to penny size hail.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Townley	-	Several trees were downed in the Townley area.
April 2021	Hail	Townley	-	Quarter size hail reported along Interstate 22.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Townley	-	Several trees uprooted and blocking the intersection of Highway 124 and Highway 102.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Townley	-	Several trees uprooted along Holly Grove Road.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Townley	-	Several trees were uprooted in the town of Townley.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Townley	-	Trees and power lines were blown down along Highway 124 in the Townley community.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Townley	-	Trees and power lines were reported down by thunderstorm wind in Townley, and small hail (one-quarter of an inch) was reported at Parrish.
March 2015	Hail	Townley	-	no account filed
March 2010	Hail	Townley	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Townley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walker 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 75000329 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Walker County	All 8 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.
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.