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Photograph of Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute
Photograph by Altairisfar, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute, also known as the Colored Industrial and Literary Institute of Snow Hill, was a historic African American school in Snow Hill, Alabama. William James Edwards, a graduate of Tuskegee University, and began in a one-room log cabin.”

Wikipedia article Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Wilcox County · listed in 1995 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Co. Rd. 26 N side, NW of Snow Hill, Snow Hill, 36741
  • When was it listed? February 1995
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Pine Apple
  • National Register reference number. 95000146 - 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

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute between 1994 and 2019, burning about 296 acres in total. 2 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
9 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burning5.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2010Debris and open burning32 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2006Arson/incendiarism83 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Wilcox 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 Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Furman Quarry and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wilcox County

Storms near this property

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snow Hill, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 hail. 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 2003HailSnow Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wilcox 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

3 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
Ackerville Baptist Church of Christ2.2 miles2003
Furman Historic District4.0 miles1999
Oak Hill Historic District7.5 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95000146 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wilcox CountyAll 14 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.