Kerby House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Kerby House, also known as the Randolph Plantation, is a historic Greek Revival plantation house and historic district in Prairieville, Alabama, United States. This area of Hale County was included in Marengo County before the creation of Hale in 1867.”
Wikipedia article Kerby 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Co. Rd. 8 SE of jct. with AL 69, Prairieville, 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
National Register reference number. 94000697 - 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

37 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Kerby House between 1995 and 2020, burning about 278 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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	19
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Smoking	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
8 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20130922-001
21 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20120706-003
5 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not 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 Kerby House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Tolar Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Hale County

Storms near this property

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prairieville, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 2 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
October 2022	Hail	Prairieville	-	Photos of large hail along Highway 80 near the town of Gallion.
February 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Prairieville	-	Several trees uprooted north of the town of Gallion.
October 2010	Hail	Prairieville	-	Quarter size hail lasted 2-3 minutes.

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
St. Andrew's Church	0.9 miles	1973
Hawthorne	0.9 miles	1994
Battersea	1.0 miles	1994
Bermuda Hill	1.7 miles	1994
Waldwic	2.2 miles	1994
Oak Grove School	2.9 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000697 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hale County	All 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.
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.