Summerfield District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Summerfield District is a 56.2-acre (22.7 ha) historic district in Summerfield, Alabama, United States. It is bounded by the Selma-Summerfield and Marion roads, and Centenary and College streets.”
Wikipedia article Summerfield District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

Address. Selma-Summerfield and Marion Rds., Centenary and College Sts., Summerfield, 36701
When was it listed? March 1982
Category. district
Census division. Selma
National Register reference number. 82002011 - 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

112 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Summerfield District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 481 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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	59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	12
Arson/incendiarism	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	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
5 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2004	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190922-1
2 September 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20140912-001
12 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this property

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summerfield, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2003	Hail	Summerfield	$85,000	Supercell 3 produced a swath of large hail across extreme northern Dallas County. Hail sizes varied widely and ranged from penny to tennis ball size. The largest hail reports came from areas just north and northwest of Selma.
April 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Summerfield	$20,500	A tornado briefly touched down along County Road 272 where it uprooted several hardwood and softwood trees. One mobile home sustained significant damage. Maximum winds were estimated to be 90 mph. The tornado lifted 0.1 miles northeast of County Road 272.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	$1,000	A large tree was blown down and blocked the road in Summerfield.
February 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	-	Several trees were downed in the Valley Grande area.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	-	Several trees and power lines were downed in the Valley Grande area, and a silo was damaged as well.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	-	Several trees were blown down near Lazy Acres.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	-	Multiple trees uprooted in Valley Grande.
April 2022	Hail	Summerfield	-	Golf ball size hail reported in Valley Grande.
May 2018	Flash Flood	Summerfield	-	County Roads 508 and 510 closed due to high water.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	-	Several trees uprooted along County Road 16 and County Road 37.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	-	Several trees uprooted along Huggins Road.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	-	Several trees were uprooted in and around Valley Grande.
March 2012	Tornado (EF1)	Summerfield	-	A tornado initially touched down in rural southeast Perry County along Oscar Price Road, just northeast of Suttle. It followed a northeastward path through southeastern Perry County, before crossing the Oakmulgee Creek, moving into Dallas County. In this location, at least 1000 trees were snapped in a wide swath near County Road 282. The tornado proceeded to Paul M Grist State Park and blown out winds and tore shingles off at the park center. Additionally, two campers were toppled, and hundreds more trees were snapped. The tornado continued northeast toward Highway 22 and County Road 294, where a brick home sustained minor damage and hundreds more trees were snapped or uprooted. It continued to snap and uproot many more trees across northern Dallas County, before crossing into Autauga county, where it eventually lifted.
February 1998	Hail	Summerfield	-	Nickel size hail was reported near Summerfield.
June 2014	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed

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.

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Valley Creek Presbyterian Church	3.5 miles	1976
Marshall's Grove	4.2 miles	1982
Marcus Meyer Skinner House	5.6 miles	1987
Selma University Historic District	6.7 miles	2023
Sullivan & Richie Jean Jackson House	6.9 miles	2014
Tabernacle Baptist Church	6.9 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002011 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.