Winston County Courthouse

Built in 1894 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Winston County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Double Springs, Alabama, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 27, 1987.”
Wikipedia article Winston County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Winston County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1894, Neoclassical 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 as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. Addison Rd., Double Springs, 35553
When was it listed? August 1987
Category. building
Census division. Double Springs
When was it built? 1894
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 87001416 - 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Winston County Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,387 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 64 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	64
Debris and open burning	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	4
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	National Forests in Alabama	PINETUCKEY
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	WILBURN FORD #2
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Alabama	MASHER BRANCH 2

Every fire recorded in Winston County

Storms near this property

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Double Springs, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 1997: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Double Springs	$50,000	Winston County Emergency Management reported many trees down, one business damaged, tin roof partially blown off a building, and power lines down in the Arley-Helicon area along County Road 77 in eastern Winston County.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Double Springs	$50,000	High winds with a thunderstorm toppled a house under construction in Double Springs, took the top off a chicken house, and downed a number of trees. Hail the size of quarters was also reported in Double Springs, and hail up to quarter-size covered the road on U.S. Highway 278 east of Double Springs.
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Double Springs	$45,000	no account filed
April 1996	Lightning	Double Springs	$20,000	no account filed
January 1997	Hail	Double Springs	$10,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Double Springs	$5,000	Three-quarter inch hail was reported at Haleyville. Power lines and several trees were downed in the Double Springs area.
February 1995	Hail	Double Springs	-	Dime-size hail was reported on U.S. Highway 278 just west of Double Springs.
June 1994	Hail	Double Springs	-	High winds with a thunderstorm toppled a house under construction in Double Springs, took the top off a chicken house, and downed a number of trees. Hail the size of quarters was also reported in Double Springs, and hail up to quarter-size covered the road on U.S. Highway 278 east of Double Springs.
June 1994	Hail	Double Springs	-	High winds with a thunderstorm toppled a house under construction in Double Springs, took the top off a chicken house, and downed a number of trees. Hail the size of quarters was also reported in Double Springs, and hail up to quarter-size covered the road on U.S. Highway 278 east of Double Springs.
November 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Double Springs	-	A porch and roof were blown off a trailer between Ashridge and Double Springs. Electric company reported trees down near Arley.

Every storm recorded in Winston 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001416 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Winston County	All 3 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.