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Photograph of Davidson-Smitherman House
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Davidson-Smitherman House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Davidson-Smitherman House, also known as the Davidson Plantation, is a historic plantation house in Centreville in Bibb County, Alabama, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 6, 1988.”

Wikipedia article Davidson-Smitherman House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Bibb County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

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.
  • Listed as. Davidson--Smitherman House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 167 Third Ave., Centreville, 35042
  • When was it listed? January 1988
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Centreville-Brent
  • National Register reference number. 87001552 - 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

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Davidson-Smitherman House between 1992 and 2016, burning about 989 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 29 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 burning38
Arson/incendiarism29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
9 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission3842 SELMA ROAD - CENTREVILLE, AL
7 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Natural1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2004Arson/incendiarism16 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Bibb County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Davidson-Smitherman House: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Forestry Service PitKaolinProducer
USGS MR-60 Alabama No.8 ProspectFluorine-FluoriteUnknown

Every working recorded in Bibb County

Storms near this property

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centreville, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2007: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCentreville$50,000Quarter-size hail was reported at Brent. The roof was blown off a barn near the intersection of County Road 1 and U.S. 82.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindCentreville$15,000A few large trees were down in the Centerville area and a grocery store in Brent had its roof damaged.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCentreville$10,000A roof was damaged on a house on SR 25, northeast of Centreville.
May 1998HailCentreville$5,000Larger than quarter sized hail was reported in Eoline.
April 1998HailCentreville$5,000Hail the size of quarters was reported in Centreville.
January 1997HailCentreville$5,000no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindCentreville$200Power lines were downed in western sections of Bibb County along with at least one power pole in Centreville.
December 2005HailCentreville-Dime to penny size hail was observed in Centreville.
March 1998HailCentreville-Nickel size hail was reported in Centreville.
February 1995HailCentreville-One-inch hail was reported at the Six Mile community along Alabama 25 about nine miles northeast of Centreville.
May 1995HailCentreville-Quarter-size hail was reported. A wind gust to 58 miles an hour was recorded at the National Weather Service Office located five miles southwest of Brent.
April 2007HailCentreville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bibb 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

1 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
Centreville Historic District0.2 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87001552 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bibb CountyAll 6 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.