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Photograph of Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church
Photograph by Bjwetherbee, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church, originally known as Mount Carmel Presbyterian Church, is a historic Greek Revival church in Pleasant Hill, Alabama, United States. The current structure was built between 1851 and 1852.”

Wikipedia article Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Dallas County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. O.2 mi. E of jct. of Cty. Rd. 7 and Cty. Rd. 12, Pleasant Hill, 36775
  • When was it listed? April 1999
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Carlowville
  • National Register reference number. 99000465 - 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

40 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church between 1995 and 2019, burning about 480 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1995Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2014Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140925-001
22 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this property

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Hill, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1998HailPleasant Hill-Golf ball size hail was reported from Pleasant Hill to Polk.

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000465 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dallas CountyAll 35 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.