Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
From the record
“Patrick's Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church on the east side of Hwy. 90 in Loxley, Alabama, United States. It was built in 1924 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article St. Patrick's Catholic Church (Loxley, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 61 National Register listings published here for Baldwin County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
Also known as. Rural Churches of Baldwin County TR
Census division. Robertsdale
National Register reference number.88001354- 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
175 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 175 fires within 5 miles of St. Patrick's Catholic Church
between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,896 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 41 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
69
Arson/incendiarism
41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
20
Recreation and ceremony
16
Equipment and vehicle use
14
Misuse of fire by a minor
8
Natural
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Smoking
1
Other causes
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of St. Patrick's Catholic Church: 1 producer, 1 past producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Loxley, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 16 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 5 lightning, 3 tornado.
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.
A brief EF-0 tornado touched down on the south side of County|Road 64, just west of the County Road 66 intersection. The|tornado moved southeast and stayed to the south of County Road|64. The end point is estimated. Spotty tree damage was noted|along the path, including two large hardwood trees that were|uprooted and facing back toward the west.
Lighting struck a radio transmission tower in Loxley. The tower housed three different stations and knocked them all off for two days. Someone at the tower reported that they had sixteen lightning hits in just a few minutes.
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.
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.
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