Commercial Hotel-Hart Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Commercial Hotel, later known as the Hart Hotel and Flomaton Hotel, was a historic hotel building in Flomaton, Alabama, United States. The two-story wood-frame structure was built from 1904 to 1905 in the Queen Anne style.”
Wikipedia article Commercial Hotel, Flomaton, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Escambia County · listed in 1986 · 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.
Listed as. Commercial Hotel--Hart Hotel - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 120 Palafox St., Flomaton, 36441
When was it listed? May 1986
Category. building
Census division. Flomaton
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 86001160 - 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

268 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 268 fires within 5 miles of Commercial Hotel-Hart Hotel between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,137 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 53 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	81
Arson/incendiarism	53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	48
Railroad operations and maintenance	36
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Recreation and ceremony	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Smoking	4
Fireworks	3
Natural	3

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 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
30 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	71 VIVAL PATHE LANE, AL
28 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	26 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Escambia County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Commercial Hotel-Hart Hotel: 8 producers, 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mixon Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Esc 3 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
Wiggins W H Prospect	Clay	Occurrence
Campbell Sand and Gravel - Century Mine	Sand	Unknown
Pace Sand and Gravel - Century Pit #1	Sand	Unknown
Pace Sand and Gravel - Century Pit #2	Sand	Unknown
Red Sand and Gravel - Sunday Road Mine	Sand	Producer
Century Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Century Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Century Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Escambia County

Storms near this property

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flomaton, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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
December 2009	Flood	Flomaton	$362,000	Significant water level rises along the Big Escambia Creek due to persistent heavy rains falling in the river basin resulted in significant flooding of several homes and businesses in the northern sections of Flomaton. Estimates from local Emergency Management, Federal Emergency Management officials, and the State of Alabama Emergency Management Agency estimate damages from flood waters in Flomaton near 362,000 U.S. Dollars.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Flomaton	$20,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees and power lines and caused damage to barns along with a roof of a mobile home.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Flomaton	$15,000	High winds from a thunderstorm blew down a couple of trees near Flomation. One of the trees fell on a trailer and temporally trapped two people inside. They were able to get out of the home and were not injured.
November 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Flomaton	$10,000	High winds from a thunderstorm downed trees in Flomaton.
March 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Flomaton	$10,000	High winds blew trees and power lines down near Flomaton. A shed was also damaged.
August 1999	Lightning	Flomaton	$10,000	Lightning struck a home near Flomaton. The strike caused a fire in the attic. Local fire department personnel quickly extinguished the fire.
January 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Flomaton	$5,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees and power lines on Highway 31 in Flomaton between Bondurant Lumber Mill and Hurricane Park.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Flomaton	$5,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph blew trees down on Sardine road near Halls Mill Creek road.
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Flomaton	$5,000	Winds estimated at60 mph downed a tree on power lines.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Flomaton	$3,000	Several trees were blown down along Appleton road in Brewton. Several trees were also blown down along Highway 31 between Brewton and Flomaton. One of the trees was blown down on a house in Flomaton.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Flomaton	$2,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees and power lines in and around Flomaton.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Flomaton	$2,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph destroyed a giant flag post at Highway 31 and 113.
April 2025	Flash Flood	Flomaton	-	Public reports several roads flooded around the Flomaton/South Flomaton area.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Flomaton	-	A trained spotter estimated winds between 60-65 mph.
May 2014	Flash Flood	Flomaton	-	Heavy rain caused several roads to flood in and around Flomaton.
May 1997	Hail	Flomaton	-	Dime size hail was reported along US HWY 29 between Flomaton and Brewton.

Every storm recorded in Escambia 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 86001160 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Escambia County	All 3 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.