Parham Apothecary Building

Built in 1947. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

One of 189 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1947.

Sources: 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. 401 60th St., Fairfield, 35064
When was it listed? June 1996
Category. building
Census division. Birmingham
When was it built? 1947
National Register reference number. 96000595 - 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

107 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Parham Apothecary Building between 1993 and 2019, burning about 800 acres in total. None started naturally. 54 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
Arson/incendiarism	54
Debris and open burning	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
6 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160928-8
26 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190926-16
18 September 1999	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Parham Apothecary Building: 21 past producers, 5 producers, 3 occurrences, 3 unknowns. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Stone, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Alpha Portland Cement Company Plant	Stone	Plant
East Thomas Quarry & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Wade Sand & Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Shannon Pit	Clay	Producer
Watkins Number 1 Pit	Clay	Producer
Birmingham Red Ore Dist.	Iron	Producer
Birmingham Red Ore Mines District	Iron	Past Producer	1864, 1972
Green Spring Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Ironaton	Iron	Unknown
Ishkooda Mines	Iron	Past Producer	1863, 1969

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairfield, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfield	$65,000	A wind gust to 60 mph was reported by a television station located on Red Mountain overlooking downtown Birmingham. The local emergency management office reported trees and power lines down around the city and county. In Irondale, the roof was blown off an electronics store. In Fairfield, numerous buildings sustained minor damage in the Fairfield Heights and Rutledge Hills areas. Glass doors were blown out and skylights were damaged at Western Hills Mall. A tree reportedly fell on a car in Ketona and the occupant was briefly trapped. Alabama Power reported 38,400 people were without power at one point. In Ensley, a man died in a house fire that apparently started when candles were used while the electricity was out. In the Leeds area, a woman was briefly trapped in her house when a tree fell on it.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfield	$30,000	no account filed
July 2003	Lightning	Fairfield	$12,000	A store was struck by lightning in Fairfield. The store suffered minor damage.
April 1998	Hail	Fairfield	$3,000	no account filed
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfield	$2,000	Several trees were blown down in the western portion of the county.
July 2022	Hail	Fairfield	-	Quarter size hail reported in Fairfield.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfield	-	Several trees uprooted and on a house in the city of Fairfield.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfield	-	Several trees uprooted between the cities of Pleasant Grove and Farfield.
January 2013	Flash Flood	Fairfield	-	The intersection at E.J. Oliver Blvd and Valley Road in Fairfield was impassable due to high waters.
May 1995	Hail	Fairfield	-	Dime-size hail was reported by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department at Fairfield.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Williams Hall	0.4 miles	1994
Brown Hall	0.4 miles	1994
Flintridge Building	0.4 miles	2004
Belview Heights Historic District	1.5 miles	2000
Wylam Fire Station	1.9 miles	1990
Bank of Ensley	2.1 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000595 in Record Group 79.
Jefferson County	All 189 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.