Davis-Oak Grove District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Davis-Oak Grove District is a historic district near Mauvilla in rural Mobile County, Alabama, United States. It is on the western side of Oak Grove Road, north of the intersection with Kali Oka Road.”
Wikipedia article Davis-Oak Grove District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 146 National Register listings published here for Mobile 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

Listed as. Davis--Oak Grove District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. W side of Oak Grove Rd. just N of Kali Oka Rd., Mauvila, 36613
When was it listed? May 1988
Category. district
Census division. Mobile
National Register reference number. 88000445 - 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

348 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 348 fires within 5 miles of Davis-Oak Grove District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,008 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 162 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	162
Debris and open burning	100
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	65
Recreation and ceremony	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
3 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180923-7
20 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Davis-Oak Grove District: 9 producers, 2 past producers, 2 prospects. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay, Silica. 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
Alabama Asphalt Paving Co., Inc Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Past Producer
Mob 2 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
Mob 5 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
Unnamed Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Producer	Clay, Quartz
Brunson Number 5 Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Quartz
Dirt Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Quartz
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

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
	Jacob Magee House	3.1 miles	1988
	Charles Denby Garrison Sr. House	4.6 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000445 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.