Doctor's Office

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Doctor's Office was a historic professional office building in Plantersville, Alabama, United States. The one-story, wood-frame structure was built in a vernacular interpretation of Greek Revival architecture c. 1850.”
Wikipedia article Doctor's Office (Plantersville, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Dallas County · listed in 1987 · 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.
Address. Jct. of First Ave. N of Oak St. and First Ave., Plantersville, 36758
When was it listed? January 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Plantersville MRA
Census division. Selma
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 86003663 - 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Doctor's Office between 1992 and 2019, burning about 744 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2007	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1997	Debris and open burning	47 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.3 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20140927-002
19 September 1995	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.3 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this property

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plantersville, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 2 deaths 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 2025	Tornado (EF3)	Plantersville	2 killed, 2 hurt	The tornado formed and intensified quickly about two miles south\|of Plantersville along County Road 63, uprooting swaths of trees\|right from the start. The tornado travelled northward into\|Plantersville and intensified to its maximum intensity of a\|140 MPH EF3 tornado in the south end of town, where trees across\|the entire area were uprooted, snapped, and even debarked.\|Several homes and businesses were destroyed, which unfortunately\|resulted in two fatalities and two injuries. The tornado began a\|more northeasterly trajectory as it left Plantersville, but still\|remained strong as it crossed into Autauga County.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Plantersville	$10,000	Trees and power lines were down in Plantersville along CR 63.
March 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Plantersville	$1,000	Single trees were blown down at two locations near Plantersville, in the northern portion of the county.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Plantersville	-	Several trees and tree limbs were downed along Highway 22 and County Road 294 just before a tornado formed to the east of this location.
April 2024	Tornado (EF1)	Plantersville	-	The tornado began in a wooded area just east of the Perry/Dallas County line. It quickly reached its peak intensity of 95 mph as it crossed County Road 272 where dozens of trees were snapped or uprooted, blocking the roadway for over a quarter of a mile as it paralleled the road. Additional trees were downed along County Roads 290 and 305, but the tornado weakened as it approached Plantersville. Still, several trees were downed along Dallas County 560 and Highway 22 in Plantersville. The tornado then crossed into Chilton County.
November 2003	Funnel Cloud	Plantersville	-	A large funnel cloud was observed by Emergency Management Officials near Plantersville just off SR 22. EMA
May 1998	Hail	Plantersville	-	Dime size hail was reported in Plantersville.
February 2009	Hail	Plantersville	-	no account filed

Every storm 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

4 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
Christian Church and Parsonage	under 500 feet	1987
Antique Store	under 500 feet	1987
Driskell-Martin House	0.2 miles	1987
Todd House	0.5 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86003663 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.
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.