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Photograph of Langdale Historic District
Photograph by Rivers Langley; SaveRivers, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Langdale Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“Langdale Historic District is a historic district in Valley, Alabama, and Harris County, Georgia, United States. It was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on July 22, 1991, and the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on November 12, 1999.”

Wikipedia article Langdale 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

Fires near this property

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Langdale Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 718 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 35 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 burning54
Arson/incendiarism35
Recreation and ceremony11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Other causes1

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
7 September 1998Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2014Debris and open burning3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-HARRIS-002
16 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2016Natural6.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-HARRIS-002
14 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot 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 Langdale Historic District: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cha 1 Clay ProspectClayProspect

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1995Thunderstorm WindValley$22,000Lightning 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Fairfax Historic District1.6 miles1999
Bethlehem Baptist Church1.8 miles2017
Shawmut Historic District1.9 miles1999
Riverview Historic District2.5 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001299 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chambers CountyAll 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.