Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
From the record
“The Blocton Italian Catholic Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Primitive Ridge Road in West Blocton, Alabama, United States. It was established in 1896 by Italian Catholic immigrant workers employed in the coal mines of Bibb County.”
Wikipedia article Blocton Italian Catholic Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Bibb County · listed in 1999 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.99000464- 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
260 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 260 fires within 5 miles of Blocton Italian Catholic Cemetery
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,862 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 98 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
107
Arson/incendiarism
98
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
21
Recreation and ceremony
19
Smoking
6
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
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
16 workings within 5 miles of Blocton Italian Catholic Cemetery: 12 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
West Blocton, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 16 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
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.
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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