Stockton Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Stockton Methodist Church is a historic church on the east side of Hwy. 59 in Stockton, Alabama, United States. It was built in 1929 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Stockton 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. E side Hwy. 59, Stockton, 36579
When was it listed? August 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Rural Churches of Baldwin County TR
Census division. Stockton
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 88001356 - 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

207 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Stockton Methodist Church between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,515 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 78 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	78
Debris and open burning	58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	46
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
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
6 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
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
17 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140911-001

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Stockton Methodist Church: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Stockton Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this property

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stockton, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 16 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockton	$50,000	Strong thunderstorm winds downed trees in the area. In addition, the high winds produced minor damage to the roofs of several homes, and more substantially damaged several sheds and barns in the area, as well as a pump house. Some of these structures were destroyed.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockton	$10,000	A line of severe thunderstorms downed trees in the community. Dime sized hail was also reported.
March 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockton	$10,000	Trees and power lines were blown down, blocking Highway 21, in the front of the Stockton Post Office.
December 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockton	$8,000	High winds from a thunderstorm blew down trees and power lines just north of Stockton.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockton	$8,000	Trees and power lines were blown down near Stockton.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockton	$5,000	High winds downed trees.
November 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockton	$5,000	High winds downed trees and power lines along CR 21.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockton	$5,000	High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Stockton.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockton	$3,000	Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees near Highway 59 and Shady Lane.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockton	$1,500	Several trees and power lines were blown down near a boat landing west of the Stockton community.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockton	$1,000	Several trees were blown across Highway 225 in Stockton.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockton	$1,000	Trees and power lines were blown down in and around Stockton.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockton	$500	no account filed
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockton	-	High winds downed trees along I-65N near MM 31.
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockton	-	Trees blocking the roadway near AL Highway 225 and AL Highway 59.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Stockton	-	Heavy rains of four to seven inches in a three hour period caused some roads along the I-65 corridor between Stockton and Perdido to have standing water in them. Several secondary roads near the interstate were impassable and had to be closed for about an hour because of high water. The roads quickly drained after the storms moved out of the area.
March 1998	Hail	Stockton	-	Nickel size hail was reported along I-65 near the Stockton exit.
April 1997	Hail	Stockton	-	Dime size hail was reported in the Stockton area.
April 1997	Hail	Stockton	-	Quarter size hail fell around the Stockton area.
November 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockton	-	Thunderstorm wind downed trees and power lines along Highway 59 north of Stockton.
June 2008	Funnel Cloud	Stockton	-	no account filed
January 2008	Flash Flood	Stockton	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Stockton	-	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	5.0 miles	1988
Latham United Methodist Church	5.9 miles	1988
Killcreas House	7.5 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001356 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.