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Photograph of Bullock County Courthouse Historic District
Photograph by Calvin Beale, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Bullock County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Bullock County Courthouse Historic District is a 25.1 acres (10.2 ha) historic district in Union Springs, Alabama, United States, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.”

Wikipedia article Bullock County Courthouse Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Bullock County · listed in 1976 · 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 46 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. N. Prairie St., Union Springs, 36089
  • When was it listed? October 1976
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Union Springs
  • National Register reference number. 76000312 - 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

122 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Bullock County Courthouse between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,134 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 33 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 burning37
Arson/incendiarism33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2019Debris and open burning148 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190914-16
10 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Bullock County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1995Thunderstorm WindUnion Springs$2,000Two trees were reported blown down in the Union Springs area.

Every storm recorded in Bullock 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Foster House0.3 miles1998
Sardis Baptist Church4.8 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76000312 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bullock CountyAll 4 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.