Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
From the record
“Methodist Episcopal Church, South is a historic church at 1608 Old County Road in Daphne, Alabama, United States. It was built in 1858 in a Greek Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Daphne, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 61 National Register listings published here for Baldwin County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.80000679- 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
46 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church, South
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 358 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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
17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
11
Debris and open burning
6
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Recreation and ceremony
3
Natural
2
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 federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church, South: 2 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Kaolin, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Daphne, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 10 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 lightning, 3 flash flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A 65 year old female was praying for her families safe return from a Memorial Day trip to the beach when lightning struck nearby. She was standing next to her refrigerator when a ball of lightning exploded out of her kitchen floor. She was knocked to the floor and was found by her family a few minutes later. The lightning appeared to have struck across the street from her home and ran into the house through a water line. The lightning continued into her backyard and ripped open a small trench. Pieces of concrete were scattered throughout the kitchen. She said her dog had tried to block her way into the kitchen only minutes before the strike occurred. She refused to go to a hospital.
Lightning struck a tree outside a home and ran along a path into the home, where it knocked a man to the ground. The man was uninjured, but the lightning blew out several appliances in the home.
The tornado likely began south of Daphne Ave where light tree|debris was noted. Sporadic light wind damage was noted before|this location. The tornado then crossed Daphne Ave where it|brought down a couple hardwoods including a couple significant|snaps. However, the health of the trees were in question and|given the lack of other damage indicators, especially to|healthier trees, a lower bound damage rating was designated. A|convergent path was noted here. albeit weak, it was noticeable.|The tornado then crossed Randall Ave with some tree branches|snapped and one uproot. One home lost some shingles before the|tornado likely lifted north of Randall Ave.
A brief EF1 tornado first touched down just north of County Road 64,|west of Capital Drive. A home at this location was damaged by an|downed tree. The tornado then moved northeast and significantly|damaged a large metal building at the intersection of Capital Drive|and Rand Avenue, pulling exterior wall panels and brick facade from|the east side of the building. The tornado also picked up two large|metal sheds and tossed them in different directions. The tree damage|in the area also displayed a convergent pattern. The tornado lifted|near or just before it reached Public Works Road.
A student at Daphne High School was walking to his vehicle when lightning struck near him and knocked him to the ground. He was examined at the scene and refused to go to the hospital.
A five-minute duration of nickel-size hail was reported by the Daphne Police Department. There was a significant outbreak of severe weather across north and central Alabama on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1994. The severe weather began in the morning around 0900 CST and continued throughout the day and into the nighttime hours. The weather affected Alabama in waves with four waves of weather moving through the state. In trying to unravel the events of the day after the fact, there is a great deal of confusion and uncertainty about the times of many events. This stems from the fact that these waves of severe weather moved over many of the same counties three or four times. Every attempt has been made to get this information as correct as possible. It is also possible that some smaller events may not have been reported since there was so much attention drawn to the three major tornado events in Dekalb, St. Clair, Calhoun, Cherokee, and Shelby Counties.
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.
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.
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