St. Luke's Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Luke's Episcopal Church is a historic Carpenter Gothic church built in 1850s at Cahaba, Alabama, the state's first capital from 1820 to 1826. The unknown builder closely followed plans published by architect Richard Upjohn in his 1852 book Rural Architecture.”
Wikipedia article St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Cahaba, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Dallas County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. S of Browns, Browns, 36773
When was it listed? March 1982
Category. building
Census division. Safford
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 82002008 - 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

73 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of St. Luke's Episcopal Church between 1994 and 2019, burning about 654 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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	35
Arson/incendiarism	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	17 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190928-2
28 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190928-1
26 September 2000	Debris and open burning	5.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.3 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160924-11

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this property

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Browns, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 hail. 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
March 2023	Hail	Browns	-	Penny size hail reported near the intersection of Highway 80 and County Road 5.

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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 82002008 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dallas County	All 35 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.