Hiram B. Austin House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Austin House is a historic residence on Mon Louis Island in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. Situated on the western shore of Mobile Bay, the wood-frame structure was built in 1837 in the Gulf Coast Cottage style.”
Wikipedia article Hiram B. Austin House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 146 National Register listings published here for Mobile 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. Austin, Hiram B., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. AL 163 at 12 mi. marker, Mon Louis Island, 36523
When was it listed? February 1988
Category. building
Census division. Bayou La Batre
National Register reference number. 88000106 - 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

212 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 212 fires within 5 miles of Hiram B. Austin House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 10,645 acres in total. None started naturally. 114 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	114
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	48
Debris and open burning	41
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
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 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	500 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190907-4
7 September 1995	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	45 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Mobile 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Bellingrath Gardens and Home	2.3 miles	1982
	Middle Bay Light	5.3 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000106 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mobile County	All 146 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.