George Leatherbury House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The George Leatherbury House was a historic house along the shore of Portersville Bay, halfway between Bayou La Batre and Bayou Coden, in southern Mobile County, Alabama.”
Wikipedia article George Leatherbury House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 146 National Register listings published here for Mobile County · listed in 1990 · 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.
Listed as. Leatherbury, George, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Shell Belt Rd. SE of Sans Souci Beach, Coden, 36523
When was it listed? June 1990
Category. building
Census division. Bayou La Batre
National Register reference number. 90000917 - 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

304 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 304 fires within 5 miles of George Leatherbury House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 17,757 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 176 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	176
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	55
Debris and open burning	54
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	2
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
30 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20120919-001
17 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	4,394 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	BAY FIRE
16 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Storms near this property

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coden, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Coden	-	Amateur radio operated reported 60 mph winds in Coden.
August 1999	Hail	Coden	-	Nickel size hail was reported by the local media.
August 2011	Hail	Coden	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Coden	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Coden	-	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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Bishop Manor Estate	4.9 miles	1985
	Bellingrath Gardens and Home	7.6 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000917 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.