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Photograph of Robinson Springs United Methodist Church
Photograph by Chris Pruitt, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Robinson Springs United Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Robinson Springs United Methodist Church is a historic church in Millbrook, Alabama, US. Built in 1848, it was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1977 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.”

Wikipedia article Robinson Springs United Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Elmore 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 listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. AL 14 and AL 143, Robinson Springs, 36054
  • When was it listed? March 1982
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Elmore
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 82002012 - 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

259 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 259 fires within 5 miles of Robinson Springs United Methodist Church between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,012 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 49 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 burning70
Arson/incendiarism49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Misuse of fire by a minor35
Equipment and vehicle use24
Recreation and ceremony19
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Smoking4
Natural2

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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160909-13
9 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Elmore County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Robinson Springs United Methodist Church: 13 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, REE, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Elmore PitSand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, KyaniteProducerPlacer
Gober Pit Jenkins Brick CompanyClayProducer
Dredge #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dredge No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Elmore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Elmore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Flatwood Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
James PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Millbrook Scott PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Motley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Elmore 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
Ellerslie6.3 miles2013
Fort Toulouse6.7 miles1966

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82002012 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Elmore CountyAll 13 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.