Oak Hill Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Oak Hill Historic District is a historic district in the community of Oak Hill, Alabama, United States. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 26, 1998.”
Wikipedia article Oak Hill Historic District (Oak Hill, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Wilcox County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Area around Jct. AL 10 and Al 21, Oak Hill, 36768
When was it listed? June 1998
Category. district
Census division. Pine Apple
National Register reference number. 98000711 - 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

53 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Oak Hill Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 664 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200908-2
6 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190906-4
30 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190930-19
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	111 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Wilcox 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

4 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
Pine Apple Historic District	6.4 miles	1999
Hawthorn House	6.5 miles	1985
Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute	7.5 miles	1995
Ackerville Baptist Church of Christ	7.7 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000711 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wilcox County	All 14 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.