Axil Johnson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 61 National Register listings published here for Baldwin County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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.
Listed as. Johnson, Axil, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 751 Edwards St., Fairhope, 36532
When was it listed? July 1997
Category. building
Census division. Fairhope
National Register reference number. 97000649 - 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

34 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Axil Johnson House between 1995 and 2018, burning about 361 acres in total. 1 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	15
Arson/incendiarism	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	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
30 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 July 2010	Natural	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 June 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 May 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 April 2010	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 April 1995	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 March 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Axil Johnson House: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unnamed Quarry	Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Clay, Quartz
Dand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Palmer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this property

50 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairhope, the town this property stands in, in 50 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 23 thunderstorm wind, 9 flash flood, 5 hail, 4 tornado. 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
May 2022	Flash Flood	Fairhope	$250,000	Partial road collapse on North Bancroft Street between Oak Street and Bayou Drive.
July 2007	Lightning	Fairhope	$250,000	Lightning struck a home causing a fire. The home was a complete loss.
November 2000	Tornado (F1)	Fairhope	$200,000	A tornado, the third in Baldwin county in a 45 minute time period, developed and followed a path very similar to a weaker tornado that occurred about 20 minutes earlier. This tornado touched down near the intersection of Highway 27 and Highway 32, moved northeast into the Woodmere subdivision (the same subdivision affected by a weaker tornado some 20 minutes earlier). This tornado produced moderate roof and structural damage to several homes in the Woodmere subdivision. The tornado then continued northeast into the Quail Creek subdivision, where it produced minor damage to a few homes, mainly to garage doors. The damage path through the two subdivisions was intermittent, suggesting that the tornado skipped across the ground. As the tornado moved out of the Quail Creek subdivision, it lifted off the ground, but continued moving northeast as a funnel cloud. Reports of a funnel cloud, not in contact with the ground, were received as the parent thunderstorm moved northeast toward Interstate 10 and then east of Bay Minette. No additional damage was reported.
October 2007	Flash Flood	Fairhope	$100,000	no account filed
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	$90,000	The University of South Alabama mesonet recorded a 58 mph wind gust associated with severe thunderstorms. Numerous trees and power lines were downed around the city of Fairhope. Baldwin County EMA reports 5 homes and 1 commercial building were damaged.
October 2001	Tornado (F1)	Fairhope	$50,000	An F1 tornado touched down for a short time near Fairhope. The tornado caused major damage to a warehouse roof and two large metal doors were blown in. Several trees and a fence were also blown down.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	$30,000	Winds estimated at 70 mph downed a tree on a home at mobile Street and White Avenue. Another home in the area suffered shingle damage. Numerous tents at the Arts and Craft festival were damaged.
March 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	$30,000	Strong thunderstorm winds did damage to portable toilets and seating areas in the City Park on the west side of Highway 98. A light pole was blown down onto a car wash business at the intersection of County Road 44 and Highway 98, causing structural damage. Also a home at County Road 44, east of Engle Side Drive, had a porch collapse.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	$25,000	High winds from a thunderstorm, that moved in from the bay, blew down several pecan trees along U. S. Highway 98. The trees were blown down in a three mile wide area. Some outbuildings also suffered damage. Quarter size hail was also reported.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	$15,000	Trees were blown down and a travel trailer was turned over from high winds as a line of thunderstorms moved through the area.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	$12,000	no account filed
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	$10,000	A thunderstorm produced high winds that downed trees on County Road 32.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	$10,000	Trees were blown down near Fairhope.
November 2000	Tornado (F0)	Fairhope	$10,000	A tornado, the second in Baldwin county in a 20 minute time period, formed just south of Fairhope. The tornado touched down just south of the intersection of Highway 27 and Highway 32, narrowly missing a trailer park and a nearby school, but producing some tree damage and minor damage to one trailer just south of the intersection. The tornado then skipped along Highway 27 for about one mile, where it caused minor damage to one home in the Woodmere subdivision.
April 2008	Flash Flood	Fairhope	$10,000	no account filed
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	$5,000	High winds from a thunderstorm blew down a couple of trees near the Fairhope Pier. Wind speeds at the pier were estimated at 60 mph.
January 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	$5,000	Wind with a thunderstorm downed a huge water oak in downtown Fairhope around noon. The tree fell on a late model car damaging the hood and windshield. A wheelbarrow load of shingles were torn off the roof of a school building in Robertsdale at Robertsdale Elementary School. Heavy rain late in the afternoon also added to problems by pouring through the wind damaged roof.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	$4,500	Trees blown down by severe thunderstorm winds on Morphey Road and Topson Road.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	$3,000	Several trees were blown down near the Fish River at Highway 98.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	$2,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph downed a tree on Route 104.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	$1,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down in the Fairhope area.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	-	Weather Station at Fairhope Yacht Club measures thunderstorm wind gust to 67mph.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	-	Power lines down on Dyer Rd.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	-	Fairhope Public Utilities reports two broken power poles around Perdido Avenue.
January 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	-	High winds downed power lines.
May 2022	Hail	Fairhope	-	Quarter size hail reported via social media.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	-	High winds damaged a shed and fence and blew a large trampoline against a house.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	-	High winds downed a tree on CR 34 west of Highway 181.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	-	High winds downed trees and powerlines in Fairhope.
October 2021	Flash Flood	Fairhope	-	Heavy rain caused a few roads in Fairhope to be closed due to flooding.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	-	Severe thunderstorm winds downed multiple trees.
July 2019	Heavy Rain	Fairhope	-	Total rainfall of 6 inches.
April 2014	Heavy Rain	Fairhope	-	Fairhope mesonet recorded 7.09 inches of rain in 3 hours.
April 2014	Flash Flood	Fairhope	-	Heavy rain caused street flooding southeast of Fairhope on Highway 181.
April 2014	Flash Flood	Fairhope	-	Heavy rain caused street flooding on Satsuma Street.
April 2014	Flash Flood	Fairhope	-	Heavy rain caused street flooding on Norman Lane.
April 2014	Heavy Rain	Fairhope	-	USA mesonet recorded 7.09 inches of rain in 3 hours.
April 2014	Heavy Rain	Fairhope	-	A CoCoRaHS 24 hour rainfall total of 9.79 inches.
May 2014	Flash Flood	Fairhope	-	Heavy rain caused water to cover the road at Alabama highway 181 and CR 32 and at Fairhope Ave near the school.
July 2013	Flood	Fairhope	-	Water at least 6 inches in depth flowing over the intersection of Highway 181 and Highway 48 near Fairhope.
November 2004	Tornado (F0)	Fairhope	-	The large waterspout that moved across Mobile Bay moved ashore near Fairhope and quickly dissipated. No damage from the weak tornado was found.
June 2003	Funnel Cloud	Fairhope	-	A couple of funnel clouds were observed near Fairhope. The funnel clouds dissipated without ever reaching the ground.
July 2001	Waterspout	Fairhope	-	A waterspout was observed over Mobile Bay, east of Fairhope. The waterspout remained over the Bay and dissipated over the water.
July 1999	Waterspout	Fairhope	-	A waterspout was reported over Mobile Bay, approximately 9 miles southwest of Fairhope. The waterspout soon dissipated.
July 1997	Flash Flood	Fairhope	-	Torrential rains from Hurricane Danny started falling in Baldwin county Saturday evening and the Fish river came out of its banks and remained out of its banks for several days. People living along the river were forced to evacuate and numerous homes sustained major water damage. Most of the roads in the south part of the county, generally south of U. S. Highway 98, had to be closed due to high water. Many of the roads in this area were closed into Monday evening to allow the water to recede. Some roads had to be closed for several weeks before crews had time to get them in a condition to allow traffic on them again. The heaviest rainfall in this area was estimated to be 30 to 35 inches with some estimations of even higher amounts near Weeks Bay.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhope	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Fairhope	-	no account filed
January 1997	Hail	Fairhope	-	no account filed
January 1997	Hail	Fairhope	-	no account filed
January 1997	Hail	Fairhope	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baldwin 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
Whittier Hall	0.4 miles	1985
Golf, Gun & Country Club	0.4 miles	1988
School of Organic Education	0.8 miles	1988
Fairhope Downtown Historic District	0.8 miles	2006
White Avenue Historic District	0.9 miles	1988
Bank of Fairhope	0.9 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000649 in Record Group 79.
Baldwin County	All 61 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.