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Photograph of Glenn-Thompson Plantation
Photograph by Rivers A. Langley; SaveRivers, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Glenn-Thompson Plantation

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Glenn-Thompson Plantation is a historic plantation house near Pittsview in Russell County, Alabama. The house was built in 1837, five years after the Treaty of Cusseta which ceded Muscogee lands to the United States.”

Wikipedia article Glenn-Thompson Plantation, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Russell County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. S of Pittsview on U.S. 431, Pittsview, 36871
  • When was it listed? April 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Cottonton-Seale
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 80000735 - 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

91 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Glenn-Thompson Plantation between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,839 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4
Smoking1

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
17 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20130917-001
17 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160727-4
19 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined465 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionDUDLEY
15 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120715-001
14 July 2000Natural40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120710-003

Every fire 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2009Flash FloodPittsview$10,000An estimated 6 inches of rain in a short time caused several dirt roads to become washed out near the Pittsview community.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindPittsview$8,000Several 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 1999Thunderstorm WindPittsview$8,000Numerous trees and power lines knocked down just east of Pittsview near the intersection of CR 4 and CR 39.
March 2003HailPittsview$5,000A supercell thunderstorm produced a swath of golf ball size hail from near the Rutherford community, to Pittsview, to near Cottonton.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindPittsview-Several trees uprooted in the town of Pittsview.
March 2005HailPittsview-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 PropertyDistance Listed
Glennville Historic District1.7 miles1979
Samuel R. Pitts Plantation2.9 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80000735 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Russell CountyAll 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.
  • 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.