Battles Wharf Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Battles Wharf Historic District comprises a portion of Battles Wharf, Alabama, United States, between Mobile Bay and U.S. The area, also called Battles, is a narrow stretch of bayfront with long, deep lots accessible by shell-paved lanes.”
Wikipedia article Battles Wharf Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 61 National Register listings published here for Baldwin County · listed in 1988 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. US 98, Eastern Shore Blvd. roughly between Woolworth Ave. and Buerger La., Battles Wharf, 36532
When was it listed? April 1988
Category. district
Census division. Fairhope
National Register reference number. 88000107 - 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

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Battles Wharf Historic District between 1995 and 2016, burning about 183 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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	11
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
31 July 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140801-002
10 June 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 May 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 April 2010	Natural	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 April 1995	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 March 2010	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 March 2000	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 March 2002	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Baldwin 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 Battles Wharf Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Dand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unnamed Quarry	Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Clay, Quartz

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this property

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Battles Wharf, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2020 and 2023: 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Battles Wharf	-	A NWS storm survey found straight line wind damage in in the Point Clear and Fairhope areas. Several trees were downed in the Battles Rd and Old Battles Road areas with sporadic tree damage noted further east along County Road 32, east of US Highway 98.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Battles Wharf	-	no account filed
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Battles Wharf	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baldwin 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Point Clear Historic District	1.0 miles	1988
Twin Beach AME Church	1.2 miles	1988
American Legion Post 199	1.4 miles	2018
Brodbeck-Zundel Historic District	1.4 miles	1988
Zurhorst House	2.1 miles	1988
Beckner House	2.3 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000107 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Baldwin County	All 61 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.