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Photograph of Elm Ridge Plantation
Photograph by Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hatch House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“Elm Ridge Plantation, also known as the Hatch House and Holbrook House, is a historic forced-labor farm and plantation house in rural Hale County near Greensboro, Alabama, United States. The one-story raised cottage-style house was built about 1836.”

Wikipedia article Elm Ridge Plantation, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Hale County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. Jct. of AL 14 and Norfleet Rd., Hale, 36744
  • When was it listed? October 1991
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Sawyerville
  • National Register reference number. 91001483 - 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

87 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Hatch House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 209 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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 burning38
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2

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
5 September 2010Debris and open burning4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140925-001
19 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2015Debris and open burning16 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150918-001
18 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Hale 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 Hatch House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hale County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hale 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
Magnolia Grove1.7 miles1973
Greensboro Historic District2.1 miles1976
John Erwin House2.3 miles1978
Magnolia Hall2.6 miles2021
Borden Oaks3.3 miles1994
McGehee-Stringfellow House3.5 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91001483 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hale CountyAll 21 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.