Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
From the record
“The Wilcox County Courthouse Historic District is a historic district in Camden, Alabama. It follows an irregular pattern along Broad Street, centered on the Wilcox County Courthouse.”
Wikipedia article Wilcox County Courthouse Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Wilcox County · listed in 1979 · category: District.
National Register reference number.79000405- 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
191 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Wilcox County Courthouse Historic District
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 850 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
Debris and open burning
72
Equipment and vehicle use
38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
32
Arson/incendiarism
15
Misuse of fire by a minor
10
Recreation and ceremony
8
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Natural
4
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
Smoking
2
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Camden, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 19 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado.
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.
Trees were blown down and some roofs of houses were damaged, mainly due to falling trees, as strong thunderstorms moved through the area. A roof was also peeled off a larger building in the downtown area.
The tornado began along Mayo street in Camden where a couple|trees were uprooted. The tornado quickly intensified as it moved|Northeast across Broad St. with numerous uprooted large hardwood|and softwood trees. A strong convergent pattern was noted at this|location. Peak intensity occurred as it crossed Pine Ridge Road and|Rolling Hills Dr. where several large hardwoods were snapped and|most other trees were uprooted. The tornado than began to weaken|as it crossed Highway 10. The tornado lifted just northeast of|Elizabeth Avenue but not before causing damage to a small barn and|uprooting some trees. Significant wind damage still occurred along|Elizabeth avenue southeast of the circulation where several large|hardwoods were uprooted or snapped. However, this was determined|to be straight-line wind damage given divergent pattern to the|damage right of the parent circulation.
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
6 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.
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.
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