Spring Hill Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Spring Hill Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church on County Road 89 on the south side, approximately 750 feet west of the junction with County Rd. 49 in Spring Hill, Alabama, United States. The Greek Revival church was built in 1841 by John Fletcher Comer, father of Alabama Governor B.”
Wikipedia article Spring Hill Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Barbour County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. Co. Rd. 89 S side, approximately 750 ft. W of jct. with Co. Rd. 49, Spring Hill, 36053
When was it listed? February 1996
Category. building
Census division. Eufaula
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 96000110 - 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

59 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Spring Hill Methodist Church between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,955 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 12 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	22
Arson/incendiarism	12
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
9 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	13 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	68 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Barbour County

Storms near this property

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Hill, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2013: 1 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
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Spring Hill	-	A few trees were uprooted along County Road 89.
February 2008	Hail	Spring Hill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barbour 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000110 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Barbour County	All 20 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.