Nicholson House

Built in 1880. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 61 National Register listings published here for Baldwin County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1880.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. CR 6, Oyster Bay, 36542
When was it listed? December 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Creole and Gulf Coast Cottages in Baldwin County TR
Census division. Foley
When was it built? 1880
National Register reference number. 88002813 - 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

52 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Nicholson House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,266 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
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
3 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	RIDGE RD EAST, AL
7 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge	J AND B
2 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200802-1
4 July 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	100 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	GULF PARK
21 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170721-1

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 Nicholson House: 1 past producer. None of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Allen House	0.7 miles	1988
Swift-Coles House	1.5 miles	2016
Hamner House	2.5 miles	1988
Orrell House	2.6 miles	1988
Governor's Club	7.5 miles	2000
Magnolia Springs Historic District	7.6 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002813 in Record Group 79.
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.