Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
From the record
“The Whatley Historic District is a historic district in the community of Whatley, Alabama, United States. Whatley was founded with the establishment of a railroad depot in 1887, along the then-newly constructed railroad between Mobile and Selma.”
Wikipedia article Whatley Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 21 National Register listings published here for Clarke County · listed in 1998 · category: District.
National Register reference number.98000409- 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 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Whatley Historic District
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 492 acres in total. 1 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
39
Equipment and vehicle use
23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
18
Arson/incendiarism
11
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
Recreation and ceremony
4
Smoking
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Whatley Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Whatley, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood, 1 hail.
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.
Extensive flash flooding occurred in Clarke County due to 5 to 8 inches of rain that fell in a short duration. The most extensive flooding occurred in the Thomasville and Fulton areas, particularly around Bassett Creek. 31 roads were flooded and 15 were damaged. 2 homes in Fulton along School Street were flooded. Flooding also occurred along Highway 43 just south of Thomasville near Dummy Line Road, stranding vehicles.
A brief EF-0 tornado touched down on a private hunting cap just west of Amityville Road. The tornado damaged a 100 to 150 pine trees along its short path.
High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines near Whatley. Some of the trees fell on a house and caused minor damage to the roof.
The brief tornado began along Ft. Sin Quefield Road where several|branches and a couple trees were snapped. The tornado then|crossed the road and removed most of the roof and some exterior|metal walls of a large metal building structure. Several softwood|uproots and a couple softwood snaps were noted at this location. A|large swath of wind damage with divergent pattern extended South|along Ft. Sin Quefield Road with several snapped softwoods noted.|The tornado then lifted quickly as it approached Highway 84 where|only sporadic large tree branches were snapped. This tornado was|associated with a larger swath of 90 to 95 mph straight-line wind|damage with sporadic snapped softwoods.
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.
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.
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