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Photograph of Swift Presbyterian Church
Photograph by Chris Pruitt, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Swift Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Swift Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church on Swift Church Road in Miflin, Alabama, United States. It was built in 1905 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”

Wikipedia article Swift Presbyterian 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. Swift Church Rd., Miflin, 36535
  • When was it listed? August 1988
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Rural Churches of Baldwin County TR
  • Census division. Foley
  • National Register reference number. 88001357 - 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

106 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Swift Presbyterian Church between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,769 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 33 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/incendiarism33
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2014Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140903-002
23 September 2010Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150827-001
24 August 2011Natural15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionFISH TRAP ROAD, AL
9 July 2014Natural200 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTARKLIN BAYOU
8 July 1995Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 1998Arson/incendiarism300 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2007Arson/incendiarism26 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Swift Presbyterian Church: 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Baldwin County Gibbsite SandAluminumProspect1958
Blackwell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this property

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Miflin, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2006Thunderstorm WindMiflin$10,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines near Miflin.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMiflin-WeatherFlow station (XGLF) south of Foley measured a 59 mph wind gust.
June 2023Heavy RainMiflin-A total of 2.67 inches was recorded over a 6 hour period at Mesonet Station USA10 in Foley, AL.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindMiflin-Recorded by weather flow site XGLF.
May 2021Flash FloodMiflin-Heavy rain caused CR 12 from Highway 59 to James Road to have a significant amount of water covering the road and the road was closed.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMiflin-Measured by Weatherflow site XGLF.

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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
St. Mark's Lutheran Church3.4 miles1988
Foley Downtown Historic District4.0 miles2005
Foley Downtown Historic District (Boundary Decrease)4.0 miles2012
Orrell House6.1 miles1988
Hamner House6.2 miles1988
Swift-Coles House7.3 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88001357 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Baldwin CountyAll 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.