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Green Pryor Rice House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Green Pryor Rice House is a historic residence in Somerville, Alabama. The house was built in the early 1830s by Matthew Cyrus Houston, a Virginian who was postmaster of Somerville and clerk of the circuit court.”

Wikipedia article Green Pryor Rice House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Morgan 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 listing

  • Listed as. Rice, Green Pryor, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Jct. of Madison and Monroe Sts., Somerville, 35670
  • When was it listed? July 1986
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Tidewater Cottages in the Tennessee Valley TR
  • Census division. Somerville
  • National Register reference number. 86001546 - 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 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Green Pryor Rice House between 1993 and 2019, burning about 850 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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 burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use14
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Natural1

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
6 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20180924-1
15 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this property

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Somerville, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 22 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1994Thunderstorm WindSomerville$50,000Roof was reported blown off a porch and large trees were down in the Somerville area.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindSomerville$25,000Several trees were reported blown down near Somerville.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindSomerville$16,000Numerous trees were blown down in the Somerville area.
April 2006HailSomerville$15,000Golf ball size hail was reported and produced some light to moderate damage to 15 vehicles in this vicinity.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindSomerville$10,000A tree and a few power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds at the road intersection of Oakmont Trail and Log Cabin Trail, around four miles north-northeast of Somerville, Alabama.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindSomerville$5,000Thunderstorm winds knocked a few trees down in the Somerville community.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindSomerville$4,000A large tree was blown across US 231 at Lacey Springs.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindSomerville$3,000A tree and power lines were knocked down at 9 Wayside Drive in Somerville.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindSomerville$2,000A tree and power lines were knocked down on NE Blevins Road.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSomerville$2,000Powerlines were knocked down at 35 Center Springs Road in Somerville. Time estimated by radar.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindSomerville$1,000A tree was knocked down across the roadway at Highway 67 S at Watkins Lane.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindSomerville$1,000A tree was knocked down on Engle Road.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSomerville$1,000A tree was reported down on Bluff City Road in the Somerville area. Time was estimated from radar data.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindSomerville$500A tree was knocked down on Bluff City Road north of Somerville. Time estimated by radar.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSomerville$200A tree was knocked down onto a power line at 1555 Perkins Wood Road.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSomerville$200A tree was knocked down by thunderstorm winds onto Lyle Circle.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSomerville$200A tree was knocked down onto the roadway.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSomerville$200A tree was knocked down onto Main Street.
June 2023HailSomerville-Golf ball sized hail was reported in Somerville.
March 2022FloodSomerville-Barnett Chapel Road was reported flooded. Depth of water unknown.
April 2020Flash FloodSomerville-AL Hwy 36 near Hobb Ward Road flooded. Depth of water unknown. Report relayed via social media.
April 2020Flash FloodSomerville-Flash flooding on Highway 36 at East Hobb Road. Photo report relayed via social media.
April 2020Flash FloodSomerville-Water rushing over the roadwayon Hwy 36 between Black Road and Cutoff Road where Gum Springs Creek and Roan Branch flow under Hwy 36. Depth of water unknown.
April 2020FloodSomerville-AL Hwy 36 near Hobb Ward Road flooded. Report relayed via social media. Depth of water unknown.
April 2019HailSomerville-Multiple reports of one inch diameter hail were received in Somerville.
December 2017Flash FloodSomerville-Flash flooding was reported along Hobb Ward Road. Despite some receding since 7am, still well over 6 inches of swift moving water still reported as of 910am.
December 2017Flash FloodSomerville-Flash flooding was reported along Barnett Chapel Road and Black Road along Gill Creek. Although receded since 7am, still well over 6 inches of swift moving water reported as of 910am.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindSomerville-A large tree and a few power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds.
October 2014HailSomerville-Baseball sized hail was reported by Morgan county sheriff's office from cutoff road at HIghway 36 to Hhighway 36 and Highway 67 intersections.
April 2009Funnel CloudSomerville-A funnel cloud was reported by the Somerville Fire Department.
June 2009HailSomerville-Hail up to the size of golfballs was reported east of Somerville along Highway 67 south.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSomerville-A tree was blown down through a mobile home. Time estimated.
April 2006HailSomerville-Penny size hail was reported.
April 2006HailSomerville-Quarter size hail was reported.
March 2006HailSomerville-Golf ball sized hail was reported along Highway 36.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindSomerville-A few small trees were blown down on Brindley Mountain.
November 2003Thunderstorm WindSomerville-Emergency management reported a few trees down due to thunderstorm winds.
December 2000HailSomerville-Dime size hail was reported in Somerville.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindSomerville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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

3 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
Somerville Courthouse0.3 miles1972
Crabb-Stewart-Key House6.8 miles2019
Westview7.8 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86001546 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Morgan CountyAll 20 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.
  • 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.