Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
From the record
“Winston Place is a historic residence in Valley Head, Alabama, United States. Winston, a lawyer from Rogersville, Tennessee, moved to DeKalb County in 1838.”
Wikipedia article Winston Place (Valley Head, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 13 National Register listings published here for DeKalb County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.87000476- 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
241 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 241 fires within 5 miles of Winston Place
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,917 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 118 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
Arson/incendiarism
118
Debris and open burning
64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
41
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Recreation and ceremony
7
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Natural
1
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
13 workings within 5 miles of Winston Place: 8 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Clay, Water, Free. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Valley Head, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 hail, 6 flash flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain.
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.
Five to six inches of rainfall, with local amounts up to 8 inches, caused flash flooding in northeastern Dekalb conty. Hardest hit areas were near Valley Head, Mentone and near the GA/AL state line. Several roads were washed out in the Mentone area. Both the Town Hall and Fire Department in Valley Head incurred damage due to water flowing through those buildings.
Six inches of flowing water reported along Rock Ridge Road near the Big Wills Creek in Hammondville. Vehicles were able to drive through the water earlier, but may no longer be able to at this time.
Flash flooding occurred along the Allen Branch and Big Wills Creek basins in and near Valley Head. Rainfall of 4.69 inches occurred at the NWS HCN/COOP site in Valley Head. Railroad tracks were washed away stranding a train. Up to 2.5 feet of water flooded the fire department and up to 1 foot of water flooded City Hall. Time of occurrence was estimated.
The automated (HCN) cooperative weather station in Valley Head measured 4.69 inches of rain between 8 pm on the 28th through 6 am on the 29th. Of note was intense rainfall of 2.16 inches in the forty minute period from 215 am to 255 am on the 29th. In fact, 0.51 inches fell in five minutes from 225 am to 230 am. Please refer to a Flash Flood entry that resulted from this rainfall in Valley Head.
Runoff from five to six inches of rainfall, with locally 8 inches in some locations, caused significant flooding in northeastern Dekalb county. Hardest hit areas were near Mentone and near the GA/AL state line. At 12:12 pm CDT, Big Wills Drive remained barricaded due to several inches of water flowing over the road and CR 635 southeast of Mentone remained flooded.
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.
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.
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