Pine Apple Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Pine Apple Historic District is a historic district in the community of Pine Apple, Alabama. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 26, 1999.”
Wikipedia article Pine Apple Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Wilcox County · listed in 1999 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly along Old Depot, Cty. Rd. 59, 7 and 61, Broad St. Banana St. AL 10 and Adams Dr., Pine Apple, 36768
When was it listed? February 1999
Category. district
Census division. Pine Apple
National Register reference number. 99000248 - 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

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Pine Apple Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 568 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	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Other causes	1
Smoking	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
8 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200908-2
30 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190930-19
30 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	1080 CO. RD. 155, AL
29 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	18 acres	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
23 August 2000	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1998	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Wilcox County

Storms near this property

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Apple, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1999: 1 hail, 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
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Apple	$4,000	High winds blew several trees down.
June 1999	Hail	Pine Apple	-	Dime size hail was reported by the public.

Every storm 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

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
	Hawthorn House	0.3 miles	1985
	Oak Hill Historic District	6.4 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000248 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.
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.