Foster House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Foster House in Union Springs, Alabama, United States, is the best example of Moorish Revival architecture in Alabama. Foster, a physician, who built the house over five years from 1854.”
Wikipedia article Foster House (Union Springs, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Bullock County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 201 Kennon St., Union Springs, 36089
When was it listed? August 1998
Category. building
Census division. Union Springs
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 98001021 - 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

124 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Foster House between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,163 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 34 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	38
Arson/incendiarism	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	3

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 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2019	Debris and open burning	148 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190914-16
10 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Bullock County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Union Springs	$2,000	Two trees were reported blown down in the Union Springs area.

Every storm recorded in Bullock 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Bullock County Courthouse	0.3 miles	1976
	Sardis Baptist Church	4.6 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001021 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bullock County	All 4 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.
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.