Commerce Street Residential Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Commerce Street Residential Historic District is a historic district in Greenville, Alabama, United States. The district consists of four houses along Commerce Street, constructed between 1846 and 1895.”
Wikipedia article Commerce Street Residential Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Butler County · listed in 1986 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 206, 212, 218, 301 E. Commerce St., Greenville, 36037
When was it listed? August 1986
Category. district
Also known as. Greenville MRA
Census division. Greenville
National Register reference number. 86001967 - 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

175 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Commerce Street Residential Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 559 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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	74
Equipment and vehicle use	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Arson/incendiarism	16
Smoking	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	2
Fireworks	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
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	I-65 MM 126, AL
24 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20120924-001
15 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200806-3

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 56 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 56 workings within 5 miles of Commerce Street Residential Historic District: 27 unknowns, 19 occurrences, 9 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Butler County Brown Iron Ore Deposit	Iron	Past Producer	1929
Joe P Henderson Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this property

60 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenville, the town this property stands in, in 68 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 48 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. 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
March 2012	Lightning	Greenville	1 killed	A 12 year old boy was killed when the tree he was standing under was struck by lightning.
October 2006	Heavy Rain	Greenville	1 hurt, $60,000	Heavy rains caused a roof to collapse on a recently built building near Butler. The roof was not draining properly and the weight of the accumulated rainfall caused to roof to collapse. One person was injured when the roof collapsed.
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	1 hurt, $3,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph damaged a small building resulting in 1 minor injury.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$50,000	High winds with a thunderstorm raked the Kolb City area of Greenville downing a number of trees. One tree fell on a house causing extensive damage to the roof of one corner.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$30,000	Winds estimated at 70 mph downed a 2 foot diameter oak tree onto a single wide mobile home and split it in half.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$25,000	High winds from a thunderstorm damaged a radio tower and knocked the station off the air.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$25,000	High thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and power lines near Greenville. One of the trees fell on on a house, producing minor roof damage.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$25,000	no account filed
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$20,000	High winds, along the leading edge of a squall line, blew down several trees and power lines from Greenville to McKenzie.
December 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$15,000	Winds estimated at 70 mph caused a modular home porch to be blown off and roof peeled off. Several trees and power lines were also downed in the area.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$15,000	The county sheriff's office estimated thunderstorm winds near 80 mph in the community with reports of several trees down and some homes suffered window damage.
January 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$12,000	High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines near Greenville.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$12,000	High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Greenville.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$10,000	High winds downed multiple trees in and around Greenville.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$10,000	A porch was blown off of a residence and a tree was blown onto a police car. Many trees were reported down throughout the county.
December 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$10,000	Winds estimated at 70 mph destroyed a barn.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds blew down trees in Greenville.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$10,000	High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines near Greenville.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$10,000	High winds blew down several trees east of Greenville.
November 2001	Flash Flood	Greenville	$10,000	A small earthen dam broke west of Greenville. The dam was located near Highway 10, just to the west of Interstate 65. Some side roads in the area were closed.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines just west of the community along State Highway 10.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$10,000	no account filed
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$10,000	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$8,000	High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Greenville. An awning over a trailer was damaged from the high wind.
February 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$5,000	High winds caused roof damage to a barn, blew shingles off a home, and downed trees near Greenville.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$5,000	Winds estimated at 70 mph downed numerous trees in the Greenville area.
February 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$5,000	Winds estimated at 70 mph downed numerous trees along I-65 near Greenville.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$5,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph downed numerous trees around the county causing power outages.
August 2011	Lightning	Greenville	$5,000	Lightning struck the Butler County Courthouse and knocked out phone and electric service.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$5,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph downed several trees and powerlines.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$5,000	Several trees were blown down around the community as thunderstorms moved through the area.
February 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$5,000	Trees were blown down just north of Greenville
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$5,000	Trees were blown down by high thunderstorm winds southeast of the community.
October 1997	Tornado (F0)	Greenville	$4,000	An F0 tornado touched down about five miles northwest of Greenville along State Road 185. The tornado began about a mile west of State Road 185 and moved toward 185 then went back into the cloud near State road 185. The weak tornado skipped along the ground for about one mile and damage was about 150 yards wide along the track. Most of the damage was to trees. A metal garage along Highway 185 was the only structure to suffer major damage. No one was injured.
January 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$3,500	Trees and power lines were blown down in Greenville.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$3,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees on Cahaba Road and Wildforks Road.
March 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$3,000	Trees and power lines were blown down just west of Greenville.
November 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$2,500	Trees and power lines were blown down in the city of Greenville.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$2,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph downed tree across Mashville Road.
December 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$1,500	no account filed
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$1,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph blew a tree on to power lines.
March 2003	Hail	Greenville	$1,000	Golfball size hail fell across the northeast part of Butler county. A couple of automobile windshields were cracked by the large hail.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	High winds downed numerous trees across Greenville.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	A house was damaged from a fallen tree.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	Trees were reportedly blocking Manningham Road near Woodvalley Road.
March 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	High winds downed trees on south Mount Zion Road.
April 2021	Hail	Greenville	-	Social media report of golf ball size hail.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	High winds downed trees across multiple roads in Greenville.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	Gusty winds downed trees and small hail was also reported.
January 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	Numerous trees and power lines down in and around Greenville.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed power lines on Highway 10 near Sand Cut Rd.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	High wind downed numerous trees just east of Greenville.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	High wind downed trees along Burgamy Swamp Road and Highway 97.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	Strong winds downed trees and branches near Cahaba Road.
September 2012	Flash Flood	Greenville	-	Heavy rains caused flooding on Highway 185.
September 2012	Flash Flood	Greenville	-	Water over highway 50 east of highway 10.
February 2000	Hail	Greenville	-	Dime size hail was reported just north of Greenville.
March 1998	Hail	Greenville	-	Dime size hail was reported just south of Greenville.
March 1998	Hail	Greenville	-	Dime size hail was reported along I-65 near Greenville.
March 2017	Hail	Greenville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
First Presbyterian Church	under 500 feet	1986
Confederate Park	under 500 feet	1986
Greenville City Hall	under 500 feet	1986
Gaston-Perdue House	0.1 miles	1986
Post Office Historic District	0.1 miles	1986
House at 308 South Street	0.2 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001967 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Butler County	All 31 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.