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Photograph of Jefferson Historic District
Photograph by Altairisfar (Jeffrey Reed), CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Jefferson Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Jefferson Historic District is a historic district in the small community of Jefferson, Alabama, United States. The district consists of thirteen Greek Revival buildings that were selected for inclusion due to their significance as examples of the pre-Civil War plantation economy of the Deep South.”

Wikipedia article Jefferson Historic District (Jefferson, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Marengo County · listed in 1976 · 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

  • Address. AL 28, Jefferson, 36732
  • When was it listed? November 1976
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Demopolis
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 76000342 - 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

43 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Jefferson Historic District between 1995 and 2018, burning about 390 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning12
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
27 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1995Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140919-002
10 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160910-12
21 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO.RD.57, AL
8 June 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Marengo County

Storms near this property

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jefferson, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
May 2005Thunderstorm WindJefferson$5,000Several trees were blown down near Jefferson.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindJefferson$3,000A few trees and power lines were blown down just north and east of Jefferson.
April 2005HailJefferson$2,000Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported from near Jefferson to near Thomaston. The large hail covered the ground in several locations.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindJefferson$1,000Several trees were blown down near the intersection of AL-28 and CR-57, in the Jefferson community.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindJefferson-Several trees uprooted along Highway 28.
March 2023HailJefferson-Two inch size hail reported in the Jefferson community northwest of Linden.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindJefferson-Several trees were uprooted in the community of Jefferson.
October 2010HailJefferson-One inch hail reported.
November 2001HailJefferson-Quarter size hail was reported in extreme northwest Marengo County near Jefferson.
January 1995Thunderstorm WindJefferson-Trees were reported downed in the Sweetwater area in the southwest part of the county and in the Jefferson area in northwest Marengo County when a thunderstorm moved through the county.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindJefferson-Numerous trees were blown down west of Jefferson according to sources with Gulf States.

Every storm recorded in Marengo 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

3 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
Foscue-Whitfield House7.2 miles1974
Old Courthouse7.5 miles1974
Allen Grove7.7 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76000342 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marengo CountyAll 29 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.