Central Core Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Central Core Historic District is a historic district in Citronelle, Alabama, United States. It is roughly bounded by State Street and LeBaron Avenue from Mobile to Second streets.”
Wikipedia article Central Core Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 146 National Register listings published here for Mobile County · listed in 1990 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly State and Le Baron Sts. from Mobile to Second Sts., Citronelle, 36522
When was it listed? January 1990
Category. district
Census division. Citronelle
National Register reference number. 89002424 - 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

218 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Central Core Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,504 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 90 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	90
Debris and open burning	69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	1
Other causes	1
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
5 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190905-3
4 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	37 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150904-002
3 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	HWY 45 SOUTH, AL
22 September 2006	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190912-6
10 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	10370 THREATT LANE, AL

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Storms near this property

54 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Citronelle, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 24 thunderstorm wind, 22 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$100,000	no account filed
April 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Citronelle	$30,000	Brief tornado touchdown in the city of Citronelle. Roofs were damaged on a few single-wide manufactured homes with minor roof damage to a few single-family wood frame homes. Some trees were twisted off near the tops. A section of metal roofing was removed from one unit of the Wahoo Apartments on South Center Street.
June 2005	Lightning	Citronelle	$10,000	Lightning struck a large oil barrel tank and set it on fire. The fire spread to five other tanks and they were also destroyed. No injuries were reported.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$10,000	Trees and power lines were blown down near Citronelle by high winds from a thunderstorm.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$8,000	High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees just west of Citronelle.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$5,000	Winds estimated at 70 mph downed several trees.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$5,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees and power lines.
April 2003	Hail	Citronelle	$5,000	Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported near Citronelle. Some of the large hail damaged several vehicles. The large hail also damaged several homeowners roofs. A few trees were also blown down.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$5,000	High winds blew trees down north of Citronelle.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$5,000	Trees were reported blown down by thunderstorm winds just to the north of Citronelle.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$5,000	Trees were blown down in the community by thunderstorm winds.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$5,000	High winds blew several trees down north of Citronelle.
April 2005	Hail	Citronelle	$4,000	Golfball size hail fell from a thunderstorm near Citronelle. The large hail damaged several vehicles.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$2,000	High winds downed two large trees.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$2,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees on Prine Road.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$2,000	Several large tree limbs along with power lines were blown down in the city of Citronelle.
December 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$2,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down just west of Citronelle.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$1,500	Several trees were blown down in Citronelle.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$1,500	Trees and power lines were blown down around the city of Citronelle.
January 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$1,500	no account filed
January 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$1,500	no account filed
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$1,500	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$1,000	Several trees were blown down east of the Citronelle community.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	$500	Several trees were blown down in north Mobile County near Citronelle.
March 2025	Tornado (EF1)	Citronelle	-	The tornado touched down along County Road 96 near Meinhardt Loop Road West, where a few trees had their tops snapped. The tornado continued to the northeast into an area that ground survey crews could not get to between the start point and Sam Lewis Road. This stretch was likely where the tornado peaked in intensity as Sentinel 2 and Planet satellite imagery depicted substantial damage to several segments of the forest likely in the form of tree snaps and uproots. It is also in this stretch the tornado peaked in width reaching close to 200 yards wide. The tornado weakened based on satellite imagery and ground survey crew as the tornado crossed Sam Lewis Road where a metal outbuilding lost its roof and had its walls collapsed inward. No other damage was observed in this location, leading to a lower rating at this location. The tornado continued to the northeast, crossing into Washington County, where more trees were damaged along the path visible via satellite imagery. The tornado appears to have lifted west of Sandy Ridge Road based on available satellite imagery. Further adjustments in track length, width, and intensity are likely in the coming days or weeks as higher resolution satellite imagery becomes available.\|\|Utilized imagery and derived products made available through the NASA Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, and the NASA Disasters Program.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	-	High winds downed a tree on a residence.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	-	High winds blew a roof off of a house near the 4 way stop on Prine Road.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	-	High winds downed tree limbs and damaged siding on a house.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Citronelle	-	Winds estimated near 60 mph along Highway 43 at Mobile Washington County line.
March 2011	Flash Flood	Citronelle	-	Heavy rain caused flooded roadways in Lambert.
March 2009	Flash Flood	Citronelle	-	Heavy rains flooded numerous streets in Citronelle.
March 2009	Flash Flood	Citronelle	-	Slow moving thunderstorms produced 3 to 5 inches of rain that flooded many roads in Citronelle.
February 2007	Hail	Citronelle	-	A severe thunderstorm produced penny sized hail in Citronelle.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Citronelle	-	Heavy rains of 4 to 6 inches caused flooding around Citronelle and other parts of northwest Mobile county. Several roads in the area had to be closed for about an hour due to the high water.
May 2000	Hail	Citronelle	-	A thunderstorm produced quarter sized hail just southeast of Citronelle along County Road 41 near the community of Turnerville.
August 2000	Hail	Citronelle	-	Golfball sized hail was reported in the community as a thunderstorm moved through the area.
January 1998	Hail	Citronelle	-	Dime size hail was reported just west of Citronelle.
May 1998	Hail	Citronelle	-	Dime size hail was reported just east of Citronelle.
April 1998	Hail	Citronelle	-	Dime size hail was reported just north of Citronelle.
June 1997	Hail	Citronelle	-	Dime size hail was reported in the Citronelle community.
April 1997	Hail	Citronelle	-	Dime size hail was reported in the northwest part of Mobile county on Lott road.
July 1995	Hail	Citronelle	-	Dime-size hail was reported around Citronelle.
June 2014	Hail	Citronelle	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Citronelle	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Citronelle	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Citronelle	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Citronelle	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Citronelle	-	no account filed
January 2009	Hail	Citronelle	-	no account filed
October 2007	Flash Flood	Citronelle	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Citronelle	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Citronelle	-	no account filed
December 1996	Hail	Citronelle	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Citronelle	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mobile 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

4 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
N. Q. and Virginia M. Thompson House	0.4 miles	1990
Citronelle Railroad Historic District	0.6 miles	1990
Barr's Subdivision Historic District	1.0 miles	1990
Willis G. Clark House	6.2 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89002424 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mobile County	All 146 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.
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.