Kid Alley Residential Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Kid Alley Residential Historic District is a historic district in Phenix City, Alabama. Located in the Girard section of the city, Kid Alley was developed in 1895 as a middle-class neighborhood of Victorian rental houses.”
Wikipedia article Kid Alley Residential Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Russell County · listed in 1983 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 11th Ave. at 9th Pl., Phenix City, 36867
When was it listed? November 1983
Category. district
Also known as. Phenix City MRA
Census division. Phenix City
National Register reference number. 83003482 - 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

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Kid Alley Residential Historic District between 1992 and 2018, burning about 556 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 25 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	30
Arson/incendiarism	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	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
8 September 1998	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20150905-001
29 September 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	2406 SANDFORT RD., AL
15 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-MUSCOGEE-001
11 September 2002	Smoking	34 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-MUSCOGEE-001
1 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20140901-002
1 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Russell County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Kid Alley Residential Historic District: 11 producers, 1 past producer. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, REE. 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
Dixieland Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, REE	Producer	Placer
Bussey Pit	Clay	Producer
Cilla Mine	Clay	Producer
No. 1 Pit	Clay	Producer
No. 4 Mines	Clay	Past Producer
Woolfolk Mine	Clay	Producer
Dixieland Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kendrick Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Phenix City Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Phenix Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Russell County

Storms near this property

37 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phenix City, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 20 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 tornado, 2 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	Phenix City	$80,000	The supercell finished its wrath across Alabama as it exited into Georgia. Russell County received hail slightly larger than golf balls.
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	$40,000	One mobile home was destroyed, three mobile homes sustained minor damage, a few houses had minor roof damage, one home had its roof ripped off, and trees and power lines were knocked down on US 80 west of Phenix City.
March 2005	Flash Flood	Phenix City	$22,000	Doppler radar estimated three hour rainfall up to 4 inches across Russell County, with 24 hour amounts up to 6 inches. This heavy rain caused several roads in Phenix city to become flooded and temporarily impassable. Several roads were closed. Some evacuations occurred in low lying areas.
September 2011	Flash Flood	Phenix City	$20,000	Six houses were flooded with up to 6 inches of water inside in the Phenix City area.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	$20,000	Numerous trees were blown down, and 4 to 5 homes were damaged, in Phenix City.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	$10,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in Fort Mitchell.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	$10,000	In Phenix City there were several trees and power lines down.
June 1996	Hail	Phenix City	$10,000	no account filed
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	$8,000	Trees and power lines blown down on Highway 80, just west of Phenix City.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	$7,000	A tree fell on a home in Phenix City.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	$5,000	Numerous power lines were reported down around Phenix City.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	$5,000	Several trees were blown down in Phenix City. A couple of homes also received minor wind damage.
May 1997	Hail	Phenix City	$4,000	Dime size hail was reported in Phenix City.
May 1997	Hail	Phenix City	$4,000	Hail the size of quarters was reported in northern Phenix City.
March 1997	Hail	Phenix City	$4,000	no account filed
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	$3,000	Steel roofing was blown off a building at 16th Street and Broad Street, in Phenix City.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	$3,000	Several trees were blown down on Old US 431 near Phenix City.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	$3,000	no account filed
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	$2,500	A few trees were knocked down in the Phenix City area.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	$2,000	A few trees were blown down in north central Russell County.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	$2,000	no account filed
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	$1,000	Trees were blown down on Summerville Road, in Phenix City.
August 2005	Tornado (F0)	Phenix City	$1,000	National Weather Service meteorologists performed a ground survey across far northwestern Russell County. It has been determined that brief F0 tornado occurred. The tornado touched down in a rural area along the Lee and Russell countyline, just west of County Road 71. The tornado snapped a few trees along its short path. The tornado occurred at approximately 541 PM CDT. The tornado path was only 0.1 miles long and 25 yards wide at its widest point. Begin/End: 32 27.98/85 16.68
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	-	Reports of damage around Phenix City, including billboards blown out, a storage building damaged at 11th Ave and 14th St, and trees downed sporadically at numerous locations.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	-	Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in Phenix City and across Russell County.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	-	Several reports of trees downed and power outages in downtown Phenix City.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	-	Several trees uprooted in the northern portions of Phenix City. A home weather station reported a wind gust near 60 mph.
May 2006	Hail	Phenix City	-	Penny to nickel sized hail completely covered the ground in some locations.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Phenix City	-	Wind gusts were estimated around 60 miles an hour near Phenix City.
April 2004	Hail	Phenix City	-	Dime to penny size hail was reported in the southwest part of Phenix City.
March 2003	Hail	Phenix City	-	Penny size hail was reported south of Phenix City.
March 2000	Hail	Phenix City	-	One inch diameter hail was covering the ground near the intersection of SR 165 and CR 39.
March 2000	Hail	Phenix City	-	Penny size hail was reported between Phenix City and Fort Mitchell.
April 2016	Hail	Phenix City	-	no account filed
March 2013	Hail	Phenix City	-	no account filed
March 2013	Hail	Phenix City	-	no account filed
September 1998	Tornado (F0)	Phenix City	-	no account filed

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

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
Snow Valley Residential Historic District	0.2 miles	1983
Girard High School	0.3 miles	1983
Brooks-Hughes House	0.4 miles	1983
Girard Historic District	0.4 miles	1983
Shapre-Monte House	0.5 miles	1983
Morgan-Curtis House	0.7 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003482 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Russell County	All 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.
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.
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.