Furman Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Furman Historic District is a historic district in the community of Furman, Alabama, United States. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 13, 1999.”
Wikipedia article Furman 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 Snow Hill Rd., Cty. Rd. 59, Burson Rd., and AL 21, Furman, 36768
When was it listed? May 1999
Category. district
Census division. Pine Apple
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 99000249 - 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

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Furman Historic District between 1994 and 2019, burning about 518 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2000	Debris and open burning	5.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2010	Debris and open burning	32 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 June 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 May 1994	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 May 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150403-004

Every fire recorded in Wilcox County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Furman Historic District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Furman Quarry and Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Wilcox County

Storms near this property

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Furman, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2012: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2012	Flash Flood	Furman	-	State road 21 closed due to water over the road.
May 2003	Hail	Furman	-	no account filed

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
	Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute	4.0 miles	1995
	Ackerville Baptist Church of Christ	6.3 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000249 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.
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.