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Augusta Sledge House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Augusta Sledge House, also known as the Morrisette-Tunstall-Sledge House, was a historic plantation house and historic district near Newbern, Alabama, US. The main house was built in 1855 and is an example of the cottage orné style, which was at the height of its popularity in the mid-19th century.”

Wikipedia article Augusta Sledge House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Hale County · listed in 1994 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Sledge, Augusta, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Co. Rd. 12 between AL 25 and AL 61, SW of Newbern, Newbern, 36738
  • When was it listed? July 1994
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings MPS
  • Census division. Newbern
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 94000686 - 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

53 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Augusta Sledge House between 1995 and 2016, burning about 332 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined30
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140930-001
30 September 2010Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150925-002
25 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20130922-001
21 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140921-001

Every fire recorded in Hale County

Storms near this property

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newbern, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2009Tornado (EF1)Newbern$75,000A brief tornado touched down along CR-10 west of AL-61, which is south southwest of Newbern in the Sunshine Community. The roof and metal siding was completely taken off one barn, and partially off another. Another cinder block building on the farm sustained roof damage. A few trees were blown down along the short path.
April 2005HailNewbern$4,000Hail up to the size of golf balls fell across southern Hale County.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindNewbern-A few trees uprooted south of the town of Newbern.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindNewbern-Several trees uprooted in the town of Newbern.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindNewbern-Several trees uprooted along County Road 10.
April 2003HailNewbern-Penny size hail fell across extreme southeast Hale County near the Marengo and Perry county lines.
March 2013HailNewbern-no account filed
February 2009HailNewbern-no account filed
February 2007HailNewbern-no account filed
March 2000HailNewbern-no account filed

Every storm 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
Oak Grove School6.7 miles1998
Kerby House7.0 miles1994
Bermuda Hill7.3 miles1994
Hawthorne7.7 miles1994
St. Andrew's Church7.7 miles1973
Battersea7.9 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94000686 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.
  • 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.