BlockFrom the record
One of 26 National Register listings published here for Lee County · listed in 1993 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Lowther House Complex
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 8 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Lee Co. Rd. 318, Smiths Station, 36877
- When was it listed? September 1993
- Category. district
- Census division. Smiths Station
- National Register reference number. 93000986 - 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
105 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Lowther House Complex between 1992 and 2019, burning about 570 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 37 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 | 37 |
| Debris and open burning | 33 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 2002 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 11 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2007 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2014 | Fireworks | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | ECR-20140902-002 |
| 2 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 3.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Storms near this property
19 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smiths Station, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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 1997 | Hail | Smiths Station | $6,000 | Hail the size of half dollars was reported in Smiths Station, in the eastern part of the county. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smiths Station | $4,000 | Wind caused minor roof damage, and blew down a few trees, in south central Lee County. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smiths Station | $2,000 | Powerlines were knocked down. |
| November 1997 | Hail | Smiths Station | $2,000 | Dime size hail was reported in Smiths Station in the southeast part of the county. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smiths Station | $1,000 | Winds estimated at 40 mph blew down power lines at the intersection of Lee Road 294 and Lee Road 430, in the Smiths Station community. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smiths Station | - | Several trees uprooted in Smiths Station. |
| December 2021 | Hail | Smiths Station | - | Golf Ball size hail reported in the town of Smiths Station. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smiths Station | - | Several trees uprooted near the town of Smiths Station. One large tree fell on mobile home with one injury. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smiths Station | - | Several trees uprooted in the town of Smiths Station. |
| January 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Smiths Station | - | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southeast Lee County and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 90 mph. A tornado touched down west southwest of Smiths Station, along CR 581 and tracked to the northeast, uprooting several dozens trees. The tornado destroyed many buildings at the Smiths Station School Athletic Complex and damaged several additional buildings. The tornado quickly lifted just northeast of the school. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smiths Station | - | Several trees uprooted in the town of Smiths Station. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smiths Station | - | Several reports of uprooted trees in the Smiths Station community. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smiths Station | - | Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in the town of Smiths Station. |
| September 2012 | Heavy Rain | Smiths Station | - | Approximately 5 to 6 inches of standing water was reported over several roads in Smiths Station. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Smiths Station | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Smiths Station | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Smiths Station | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Smiths Station | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Smiths Station | - | no account filed |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 93000986 in Record Group 79. |
| Lee County | All 26 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.