Fairhope Plantation

Built in 1857. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Fairhope Plantation is a historic Carpenter Gothic plantation house and historic district, located one mile east of Uniontown, Alabama, US. The wood-framed main house was built in the Gothic Revival style in the late 1850s.”
Wikipedia article Fairhope Plantation, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Perry County · listed in 1992 · category: District · built in 1857.

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

The listing

Address. US 80 1 mi. E of Uniontown city limits, Uniontown, 36786
When was it listed? May 1992
Category. district
Census division. Uniontown
When was it built? 1857
National Register reference number. 92000630 - 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

71 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Fairhope Plantation between 1994 and 2020, burning about 713 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Debris and open burning	16
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2005	Debris and open burning	34 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2019	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190904-4
30 September 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20140921-001
18 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20150918-002
16 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20150916-001
16 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this property

16 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Uniontown, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2011	Tornado (EF2)	Uniontown	$645,000	A tornado touched down in Smith County, Mississippi and tracked through Jasper and Clarke Counties (See Storm Data Jackson), where it caused EF4 rated damage. The tornado then crossed into Choctaw County (See Storm Data Mobile) Alabama, where it caused EF3 rated damage. The tornado tracked across portions of Sumter, Marengo and western Perry Counties, before it dissipated. The tornado crossed into Perry County north of Uniontown and produced significant tree damage. The tornado crossed AL Hwy 183, where it damaged two outbuildings and destroyed a grain silo. The tornado lifted east of AL Hwy 183, northeast of Uniontown.
May 2003	Hail	Uniontown	$250,000	no account filed
October 2001	Tornado (F1)	Uniontown	$110,000	A small tornado touched down just southwest of Uniontown in an open area and traveled north-northeast across the western portions of Uniontown. The tornado ended just north-northwest of Uniontown in an open area. The tornado tore shingles off several houses in the southwest section of Uniontown in addition to downing trees and power lines. The tornado did similar damage to residential structures in the northwest portion of Uniontown. A one-story apartment complex lost a portion of it's roof. Several trees fell on homes and blocked residential streets. Beginning: 32 26.587/87 31.219 End: 32 27.857/87 30.951
December 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Uniontown	$15,000	A few trees were knocked down in Uniontown. One of the trees fell onto a carport and smashed a car.
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Uniontown	$10,000	Scattered trees and powerlines were downed in Uniontown.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Uniontown	$5,000	no account filed
July 2005	Flash Flood	Uniontown	$4,000	Broadway Avenue and County Road 26 were flooded and were temporarily impassable.
December 2000	Hail	Uniontown	$4,000	Golf ball size was reported by the Uniontown Police Department.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Uniontown	$2,000	Several trees were blown down across roadways in Uniontown.
April 2005	Hail	Uniontown	$1,000	Penny size hail fell in and around Uniontown.
April 2005	Hail	Uniontown	$1,000	Quarter size hail was reported in and near Uniontown.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Uniontown	-	Multiple trees were blown down around Uniontown.
April 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Uniontown	-	Several trees were blown down near the intersection of Buster Sealy Road and Alabama Highway 183.
April 2003	Hail	Uniontown	-	Nickel size hail was reported in and around Uniontown. The hail may have been much larger in surrounding rural areas.
April 2022	Hail	Uniontown	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Uniontown	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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

5 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
Pitts' Folly	1.1 miles	1984
Westwood	1.7 miles	1974
Westwood (Boundary Increase)	1.7 miles	1984
Uniontown Historic District	1.7 miles	2000
Westwood Plantation(Boundary Increase)	2.9 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000630 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Perry County	All 22 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.