Adams Grove Presbyterian Church

Built in 1853 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Adams Grove Presbyterian Church is a historic Greek Revival-style church building in rural Dallas County, Alabama, United States, near the community of Sardis. Built in 1853, it features a distyle-in-antis type portico with box columns.”
Wikipedia article Adams Grove Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Dallas County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1853, Greek Revival architecture.

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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. S side of Cahaba-Greenville Rd., Cahaba, 36775
When was it listed? June 1986
Category. building
Census division. Sardis
When was it built? 1853
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 86001239 - 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

67 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Adams Grove Presbyterian Church between 1994 and 2020, burning about 663 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190930-9
30 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190924-2
22 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire 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

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	H. Bruce Hain House	2.8 miles	2001
	Cahaba	5.5 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001239 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.