Uchee Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Uchee Methodist Church is a historic Greek Revival style church in Uchee, Alabama. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.”
Wikipedia article Uchee Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Russell County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Russell County 22. 1.8 mi. W of jct. of Co. Rds. 65 and 22, Hatchechubbee, 36858
When was it listed? July 1997
Category. building
Census division. Hurtsboro
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 97000654 - 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

84 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Uchee Methodist Church between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,644 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 15 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	33
Arson/incendiarism	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	10
Natural	5
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
30 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1998	Natural	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Natural	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2007	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 August 1998	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 2010	Smoking	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20140705-001

Every fire recorded in Russell 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 97000654 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Russell County	All 22 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.