Shawmut Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Shawmut Historic District, in Valley, Alabama, United States, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. The listing included 275 contributing buildings, a contributing structure, and a contributing site on 201 acres (0.81 km2).”
Wikipedia article Shawmut Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Chambers 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 bounded by 25th Blvd., 29th Blvd., 20th Ave., 35th St., and 38th Blvd., Valley, 36854
When was it listed? September 1999
Category. district
Also known as. Valley, Alabama, and the West Point Manufacturing Company MPS
Census division. Valley
National Register reference number. 99001176 - 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

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Shawmut Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 716 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 45 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	61
Arson/incendiarism	45
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	6
Smoking	2
Other causes	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
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2014	Debris and open burning	3.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-HARRIS-002
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Chambers 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 Shawmut Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
	Rockford Placer	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valley, 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	Valley	$22,000	Lightning struck the city of Lanett's communications system damaging many radios. Strong wind with a thunderstorm toppled several trees in the Valley area. One tree fell on a house.

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Langdale Historic District	1.9 miles	1999
Fairfax Historic District	3.3 miles	1999
Bethlehem Baptist Church	3.6 miles	2017
Riverview Historic District	4.4 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001176 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chambers County	All 10 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.