Photograph of Magee Farm — Photograph by Altairisfar (Jeffrey Reed), CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Jacob Magee House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Magee Farm, also known as the Jacob Magee House, is a historic residence in Kushla, Alabama, United States. Built by Jacob Magee in 1848, the wood-frame structure is an example of the Gulf Coast Cottage style.”
Wikipedia article Magee Farm, 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. Magee, Jacob, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. CR 45 N of Kushla Mcleod Rd., Kushla, 36613
When was it listed? February 1988
Category. building
Census division. Mobile
National Register reference number. 88000112 - 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

268 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 268 fires within 5 miles of Jacob Magee House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,227 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 126 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	126
Debris and open burning	71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	54
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	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 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1994	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	60 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Jacob Magee House: 11 producers, 2 past producers, 2 prospects. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Smith Pit	Silica	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Unnamed Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Producer	Clay, Quartz
Mob 2 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
Mob 5 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
Brunson Number 5 Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Quartz
Brunson Pit Number 6	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Quartz
Eight Mine Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
George Knapp Construction Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pit Camp No 3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
S.D. Tew Construction Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Mobile County

Storms near this property

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kushla, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Kushla	$4,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees on Highway 45.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Kushla	$3,000	Severe trees were downed by severe thunderstorm wind gusts on Highway 45, three miles south of Spice Pond Road.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Kushla	$500	Several trees were blown down along Highway 45 near Kushla.
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Kushla	-	Multiple large tree limbs over two inches in diameter were downed.
July 2001	Hail	Kushla	-	no account filed

Every storm 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

3 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
Charles Denby Garrison Sr. House	2.0 miles	2009
Davis-Oak Grove District	3.1 miles	1988
Chickasaw Shipyard Village Historic District	6.9 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000112 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.
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.