Latham United Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Latham United Methodist Church is an American historic church building on the east side of Highway 59 in Baldwin County, Alabama. It was built in 1906 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Latham United Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 61 National Register listings published here for Baldwin 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. E side Hwy. 59, Latham, 36579
When was it listed? August 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Rural Churches of Baldwin County TR
Census division. Stockton
National Register reference number. 88001350 - 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

188 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Latham United Methodist Church between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,190 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 73 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	73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	51
Debris and open burning	43
Natural	11
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150909-001
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150907-001
6 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190906-23
4 September 2013	Natural	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20130904-001
21 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150921-002
23 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200813-1
13 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150814-002

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this property

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Latham, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2003: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Latham	$5,000	no account filed
January 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Latham	$2,000	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Latham	-	Dime size hail was reported near the Tensaw river just northwest of Latham.
May 2003	Hail	Latham	-	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

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
Nelson House	0.9 miles	1988
Montgomery Hill Baptist Church	5.2 miles	1988
Stockton Methodist Church	5.9 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001350 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.
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.