Photograph of Glenville — Photograph by Rivers A. Langley; SaveRivers, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Glennville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Glenville is an unincorporated community in Russell County, Alabama, United States, which used to be in Barbour County. During the Civil War, Company "H" of the 15th Regiment Alabama Infantry was raised from Barbour and Dale counties and called the "Glenville Guards".”
Wikipedia article Glenville, Alabama, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Russell County · listed in 1979 · 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. S of Pittsview, Pittsview, 36871
When was it listed? August 1979
Category. district
Census division. Cottonton-Seale
National Register reference number. 79000402 - 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

58 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Glennville Historic District between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,681 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 15 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	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	12
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	4
Smoking	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
17 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160727-4
19 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	465 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	DUDLEY
14 July 2000	Natural	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 June 2004	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 June 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160625-2
21 June 1995	Natural	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 June 2011	Natural	200 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	OFF CO RD 12, AL

Every fire recorded in Russell 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 Glennville Historic District: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Bar 2 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Russell County

Storms near this property

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pittsview, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
December 2009	Flash Flood	Pittsview	$10,000	An estimated 6 inches of rain in a short time caused several dirt roads to become washed out near the Pittsview community.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Pittsview	$8,000	Several trees were blown down or snapped off near CR 4 from Pittsview to Cottonton. Additional tree damage occurred along CR 12 east of Glenville.
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Pittsview	$8,000	Numerous trees and power lines knocked down just east of Pittsview near the intersection of CR 4 and CR 39.
March 2003	Hail	Pittsview	$5,000	A supercell thunderstorm produced a swath of golf ball size hail from near the Rutherford community, to Pittsview, to near Cottonton.
January 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Pittsview	-	Several trees uprooted in the town of Pittsview.
March 2005	Hail	Pittsview	-	The weakening, left moving supercell still managed to produce severe hail across far southeastern RussellCounty. The reported hail size ranged from penny to nickel size and affected areas in and near Pittsview, Glenville, and Holy Trinity.

Every storm recorded in Russell 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Glenn-Thompson Plantation	1.7 miles	1980
	Samuel R. Pitts Plantation	4.4 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000402 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Russell County	All 22 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.