County Line Baptist Church

Built in 1890. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“County Line Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church east of Dudleyville, Alabama, United States. The church was first organized on May 2, 1835, in the frontier home of William C.”
Wikipedia article County Line Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Chambers County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1890.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. E of Dudleyville, Dudleyville Vicinity, 36850
When was it listed? August 1982
Category. building
Census division. La Fayette
When was it built? 1890
National Register reference number. 82002001 - 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

66 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of County Line Baptist Church between 1994 and 2019, burning about 813 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 22 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	25
Arson/incendiarism	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	1
Other causes	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
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	26 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20120926-003
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160925-8
24 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180924-2
23 September 2016	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160923-19
21 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190920-8

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of County Line Baptist Church: 6 occurrences, 5 prospects, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Mica, Gold, Asbestos. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Allen Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
Heard-Dennis Prospect	Asbestos	Prospect
Morgan Placer	Gold	Occurrence	1892
Morgan Placer	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
Buttston Mica Mine	Mica	Unknown
Carleton Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Easterwood Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Saunders Prospect	Mica	Occurrence
Clem Vines North Prospect	Talc-Soapstone	Occurrence	Talc
Clem Vines South Prospect	Talc-Soapstone	Occurrence	Talc

Every working recorded in Chambers 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002001 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chambers County	All 10 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.