Built in 1842 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
From the record
“Greenwood, also known as the Green-Woodruff House, is a historic Antebellum plantation house in Alexandria, Alabama, U.S.. It was once part of the Greenwood Plantation, which had been worked by enslaved people.”
Wikipedia article Greenwood (Alexandria, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 63 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1842, Greek Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.89000162- 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
144 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Greenwood
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,645 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 30 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
50
Arson/incendiarism
30
Equipment and vehicle use
20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
16
Recreation and ceremony
12
Misuse of fire by a minor
8
Railroad operations and maintenance
5
Natural
3
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
31 workings within 5 miles of Greenwood: 13 unknowns, 12 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Barium-Barite, Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Alexandria, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado.
The reports record 5 injuries. 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 supercell thunderstorm produced a tornado just north of Anniston in Calhoun County. The tornado began at 4:03 pm near Cane Creek and US 431. The tornado proceeded northeast and ended at 4:10 pm near Broadwells Mill just west of Jacksonville. Preliminary estimates have 10 to 20 homes damaged, numerous outbuildings and barns destroyed, and several mobile homes damaged. Two farming operations had several buildings destroyed. A cemetery on US 431 sustained damage and 5 people received minor injuries when struck by flying debris. The tornado was 7.7 miles long and 250 yards wide at its widest point. Beg: 33 44.218/85 53.709 End: 33 48.425/85 47.488
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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