Battersea

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“Battersea is a historic plantation house in Prairieville, Alabama, United States. The house was built from 1820 to 1845 by the Vaughan family from Petersburg, Virginia and served as an early stagecoach stop.”
Wikipedia article Battersea (Prairieville, Alabama), 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Co. Rd. 8, E of jct. with AL 69, Gallion, 36742
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. 94000698 - 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

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Battersea between 1995 and 2020, burning about 297 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
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
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
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
6 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20120706-003
25 July 2006	Natural	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 July 2006	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 June 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200630-1

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 Battersea: 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

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gallion, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 5 tornado, 4 hail, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 deaths and 1 injury. 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 1999	Lightning	Gallion	2 killed, 1 hurt	Two men were killed as they took shelter on shore after getting off the water. The two men had headed out for a fishing trip on the Black Warrior River. The event occurred near the Arcola Landing. The wife of the elder man was knocked unconscious when the lightning struck, however, she had moved away from the two men just before the lightning strike occurred.
March 2000	Hail	Gallion	$2,000	no account filed
March 2025	Tornado (EF0)	Gallion	-	The tornado touched down just north of US Highway 80, west of\|Allenville Road, producing minor tree damage to numerous cedar\|trees. The broad, weak but discernible tornado moved\|northeastward crossing Allenville Road, CR 12, and AL Highway 25,\|continuing to cause scattered tree damage. The tornado crossed AL\|Highway 61 north of Newbern, and began to turn more to the east. It crossed into Perry County east of Highway 61.
January 2023	Tornado (EF0)	Gallion	-	National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southwest Hale County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 73 mph. This tornado originated in Marengo County and crossed into southwest Hale County about one-half mile west of Highway 69. A few softwood trees were uprooted near the county line as the tornado tracked northeast and crossed Highway 69. Beyond that, the visible damage was mostly broken tree branches as the tornado crossed Highway 80 and lifted.
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gallion	-	Several trees uprooted in the town of Gallion.
April 2019	Tornado (EF0)	Gallion	-	National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in Hale County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 80 mph. The tornado touched down on the south side of E Z Street just south of Highway 80 and tracked northeast where it knocked over a trailer at Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church. The tornado continued northeast across Gallion Road where it caused timber damage and ripped most of the metal roofing and sides off a large metal shed. Timber damage continued as it moved northeast, impacting portions of Davis and Hall Roads. A home just west of Hall Road suffered minor damage to shingles and overhangs while a home on the north end of Hall Road was impacted by an uprooted tree that resulted in partial roof damage. A large shed between Hall Road and Highway 69 lost nearly all of its metal roof. North of the damaged shed, a home suffered minor siding damage. The tornado then tracked northeast, causing timber damage as it crossed Highway 69 and destroying a shed along with damaging another larger shed. Notable timber damage was observed north and northeast of this point as the tornado moved east of Highway 69 into uninhabited and inaccessible areas. Tornado damage was evident from Prairie Oaks Ranch located on Pecan Road. The tornado caused damage to several trees on the property and some fencing along Cat Bottom Road. The tornado moved northeast across open fields with timber damage along a tree line found along County Road 10. The tornado tracked northeast across County Road 9 where it ripped some metal tin off of a barn and caused additional tree damage. The tornado moved across open fields until it impacted portions of a tree line along a farm road just west of Highway 9. Additional timber damage was found further north along County Road 9 as the tornado turned more northeast. The tornado caused sporadic tree damage before lifting just south of County Road 16.
February 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Gallion	-	The National Weather Service surveyed damage in southeast Hale County and determined the damage was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 65 mph. This tornado was a continuation of a tornado that began near Highway 43 in Marengo County. The tornado crossed into Hale County near Cottonwood Creek and was in a dissipation phase, only producing some minor damage to trees before it dissipated near County Road 25.
November 2016	Tornado (EF1)	Gallion	-	This tornado is a continuation from Marengo County. National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in extreme northern Marengo and southeast Hale Counties and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF-1 tornado, with maximum winds estimated near 90 mph.\|\|The tornado crossed into southern Hale County about 1 mile west of County Road 25. Several more trees sustained damage along County Road 12, County Road 10, and Alabama Highway 25 and Alabama Highway 61. The tornado lifted near Alabama Highway 61 just west of Perry County line.
May 2003	Hail	Gallion	-	Penny to quarter size hail was reported across extreme southern Hale County near Gallion. The hail may have been much larger in rural southeast Hale County. This was the second hail storm to move across Hale County within an hour. This storm was the storm that eventually caused the damage in Uniontown.
February 2009	Hail	Gallion	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Gallion	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
St. Andrew's Church	0.1 miles	1973
Hawthorne	0.3 miles	1994
Kerby House	1.0 miles	1994
Bermuda Hill	1.5 miles	1994
Waldwic	2.0 miles	1994
Oak Grove School	2.9 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000698 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.