Photograph of St. Stephens Courthouse — Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Washington County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Stephens Courthouse, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Washington County Courthouse and also known as the St. Stephens Masonic Lodge, is a historic former courthouse building in St.”
Wikipedia article St. Stephens Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Washington 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. Washington County 34. 0.5 mi. SE of jct. of Co. Rd. 34 and Old Stephens Rd., St. Stephens, 36569
When was it listed? July 1997
Category. building
Census division. Wagarville
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 97000655 - 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

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Washington County Courthouse between 1994 and 2016, burning about 643 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	9
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
17 September 2010	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140826-003
19 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 1998	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 June 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO ROAD 34, AL
29 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 June 2006	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140520-001

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Washington County Courthouse: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Saint Stephens Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Garris Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Unnamed Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Quartz

Every working recorded in Washington 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 97000655 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 2 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.