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Photograph of Main-Yankee Street Historic District
Photograph by Altairisfar (Jeffrey Reed), CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Main-Yankee Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Main-Yankee Street Historic District is a historic district that encompasses an antebellum residential section of Gainesville, Alabama. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 3, 1985.”

Wikipedia article Main-Yankee Street Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Sumter County · listed in 1985 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Main--Yankee Street Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Roughly bounded by Main, Washington, and School Sts., Gainesville, 35464
  • When was it listed? October 1985
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Gainesville MRA
  • Census division. Gainesville
  • National Register reference number. 85002927 - 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

41 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Main-Yankee Street Historic District between 1996 and 2018, burning about 296 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism12
Debris and open burning8
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
23 September 2015Other causesunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150923-001
21 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160921-6
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2010Other causes2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2007Arson/incendiarism60 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150829-002
29 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2007Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Main-Yankee Street Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Johnston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Swilley's Bend QuarrySilica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz

Every working recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this property

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gainesville, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2006Thunderstorm WindGainesville$3,000A few trees were blown down between Gainsville and Geiger.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGainesville-Several trees uprooted along Highway 39 near Williams Road.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindGainesville-Multiple trees uprooted and power lines downed in the city of Gainesville.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindGainesville-Several trees uprooted in the town of Gainesville.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindGainesville-Several trees uprooted in the town of Gainesville.
February 2007HailGainesville-Reported south of Gainsville along SR 39.
December 2000HailGainesville-Dime size hail was reported at the Gainesville Lock and Dam on the Tombigbee River. The hail lasted around 5 minutes and then crossed the river.
March 1999HailGainesville-Dime sized hail reported in Gainesville.
February 2004HailGainesville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Coffin Shop0.3 miles1985
Park and Bandstand0.3 miles1985
Col. Green G. Mobley House0.5 miles1982
Laura Watson House0.6 miles1985
Gainesville Historic District0.6 miles1985
Colgin Hill0.9 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85002927 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sumter 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.
  • 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.