Built in 1853 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
From the record
“The Alexander Woods-Crook-Tredaway House is a historic mansion in Jacksonville, Alabama, United States. It was built circa 1853 for Alexander Woods, who served as the probate judge of Calhoun County from 1844 to 1880.”
Wikipedia article Alexander Woods House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 63 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1853, Greek Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.87001651- 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
206 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Alexander Woods House
between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,749 acres in total. 8 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
Debris and open burning
71
Arson/incendiarism
64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
26
Recreation and ceremony
22
Natural
8
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Smoking
4
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Other causes
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
62 workings within 5 miles of Alexander Woods House: 20 past producers, 20 occurrences, 12 unknowns, 7 prospects.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Barium-Barite, Aluminum, Lead. 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
Jacksonville, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 2 lightning, 1 funnel cloud.
The reports record 3 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.
Lightning struck the Mount Sinai Baptist Church as 50 people were eating dinner. The lightning blew a hole in a wall and a few people were hit with debris. All injuries were deemed minor. The lightning damaged a few walls and ignited a small fire.
Thunderstorm wind downed a number of trees in the Covey Rise area of the Angel Grove community north of SR 204 northwest of Jacksonville. The downed trees damaged several houses and took out a number of power lines. Two greenhouses were heavily damaged by the wind.
Very heavy rain in a short period of time caused flooding in Jacksonville. One local resident measured four inches of rain in a few hours. Many roads were temporarily impassable.
Thunderstorm wind blew down trees in the Angel Station area west of Jacksonville and quarter-size hail was reported at Jacksonville. Wind gusted to 66 miles an hour near the interstate at Oxford. Trees were downed and at least one fell on a house. About 4,500 electric customers were without power.
The roof of the library at Jacksonville State was partially removed, destroying the transmitter for the radio station that was mounted on the roof. Campus Inn also sustained roof damage.
Thunderstorm winds downed trees across the city of Jacksonville. Several trees fell on automobiles and houses as well as power lines. Three-quarter inch hail was reported at the State Trooper Post in Jacksonville.
Thunderstorm wind blew down trees in the Angel Station area west of Jacksonville and quarter-size hail was reported at Jacksonville. Wind gusted to 66 miles an hour near the interstate at Oxford. Trees were downed and at least one fell on a house. About 4,500 electric customers were without power.
Golf ball-size hail was reported just north of Jacksonville by Alabama state troopers. Calhoun County Emergency Management reported numerous trees down in northern Calhoun County in the Pleasant Valley area.
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.
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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