Joel Eddins House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Joel Eddins House is a hall-and-parlor log house on the grounds of Burritt on the Mountain in Huntsville, Alabama, and is the oldest documented building in the state. The house was built in 1810 near present-day Ardmore in Limestone County, Alabama, by Joel Eddins, a settler from Abbeville County, South Carolina.”
Wikipedia article Joel Eddins House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Limestone 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

Listed as. Eddins, Joel, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Rt. 2, approximately .5 mi. NW of jct. of AL 53 and Elkwood Section Rd., Ardmore, 35739
When was it listed? September 1996
Category. building
Census division. Athens
National Register reference number. 96001004 - 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

80 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Joel Eddins House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 720 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Arson/incendiarism	11
Recreation and ceremony	9
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	SCHIP LANE
28 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
2 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
15 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Joel Eddins House: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
	Ardmore Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Limestone
	Ardmore Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this property

32 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ardmore, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 15 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 3 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ardmore	1 hurt, $50,000	A person was injured when his mobile home was overturned and destroyed during a thunderstorm.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Ardmore	1 hurt, $8,000	Numerous trees were reported down along with power lines in Ardmore. A teenage girl was injured when a tree fell on her.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ardmore	$20,000	A roof was blown off a home 7 miles south of Ardmore. The home was located on SR 251.
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Ardmore	$20,000	no account filed
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ardmore	$16,000	Several trees were blown down in and around Ardmore, especially on Main Street.
March 1996	Hail	Ardmore	$10,000	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Ardmore	$5,000	Public report via broadcast media of three inch diameter hail.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Ardmore	$5,000	no account filed
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Ardmore	$5,000	no account filed
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Ardmore	$3,000	A porch to a home was slightly damaged by thunderstorm winds.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Ardmore	$2,000	Trees and power lines were knocked down in Ardmore dur to outflow gust front winds. Time estimated by radar.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Ardmore	$500	Three inch diameter trees were knocked down. Wind gusts were estimated at 60 to 70 mph.
September 2021	Flash Flood	Ardmore	-	Occupants of a vehicle rescued from a flooded ditch at Park Avenue in Ardmore, AL.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Ardmore	-	One inch tree limbs were broken and roof shingles were blown off. Reported via mPING.
February 2019	Hail	Ardmore	-	Numerous reports of pea to penny sized hail was received in Ardmore.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ardmore	-	Several trees and power lines were knocked down in Ardmore and in the Seven Mile Post area.
March 2017	Hail	Ardmore	-	Golf ball sized hail was reported via social media.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Ardmore	-	A large tree was knocked down on Cedar Hill Road.
October 2014	Hail	Ardmore	-	Quarter sized hail was reported.
March 2012	Hail	Ardmore	-	Golf ball sized hail was reported.
December 2009	Flash Flood	Ardmore	-	Three to five inches of rainfall produced caused some roads to be closed across central Limestone county. Some of the roads closed included: Wooley Spring road, Norris Mill road, Line road, and Cowford road. Other roads affected included: Parker, Bethel, Meyers, Seven Mile Post, and Capshaw road.
July 2008	Hail	Ardmore	-	Penny sized hail was reported near Ardmore.
April 2005	Hail	Ardmore	-	Quarter size hail was reported.
April 2005	Hail	Ardmore	-	Quarter size hail was reported.
March 2004	Flash Flood	Ardmore	-	The underpass at highway 53 and Tennessee highway 7 on the state line was reported to be under water with several inches of water over the road.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ardmore	-	A tree and a few power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ardmore	-	numerous trees and power lines down.
April 2002	Hail	Ardmore	-	Nickel size hail was observed just south of Ardmore. One home suffered minor roof damage from the thunderstorm winds.
April 2002	Hail	Ardmore	-	Dime size hail was reported near the Pisgah community, south of Ardmore on SR 251.
April 2002	Hail	Ardmore	-	Nickel to quarter size hail was reported in and around the city of Ardmore.
May 1998	Hail	Ardmore	-	Dime size hail was reported in Ardmore.
May 1995	Hail	Ardmore	-	Softball-size hail was reported just south of Salem in western Limestone County. Trees were also reported down in Cairo, also in western Limestone County. Golf ball-size hail was reported in northwest Limestone County not far from the Madison/Limestone county line.

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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 96001004 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Limestone County	All 15 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.