Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company Residential Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1941.

From the record

“The Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company Residential Historic District is a historic district in Century, Florida. The district is bounded by Pinewood Avenue, Front Street, Jefferson Avenue, Church Street, and Mayo Street, encompasses approximately 23 acres (93,000 m2), and contains 45 historic buildings.”
Wikipedia article Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company Residential Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Escambia County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Alger--Sullivan Lumber Company Residential Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Roughly bounded by Pinewood Ave., Front St., Jefferson Ave., Church St., and Mayo St., Century, 32535
When was it listed? September 1989
Category. district
Census division. Century
National Register reference number. 89001586 - 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

237 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company Residential Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 781 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 37 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	64
Railroad operations and maintenance	46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	41
Arson/incendiarism	37
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Recreation and ceremony	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	4
Natural	3
Fireworks	3
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
9 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
30 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	71 VIVAL PATHE LANE, AL
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	JETER LANE (17)
26 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	53 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Escambia County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company Residential Historic District: 7 producers, 5 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand, Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Jay	Petroleum (Oil), Sulfur	Unknown
Mixon Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Esc 3 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
Wiggins W H Prospect	Clay	Occurrence
Campbell Sand and Gravel - Century Mine	Sand	Unknown
Pace Sand and Gravel - Bluff Springs Mine	Sand	Unknown
Pace Sand and Gravel - Century Pit #1	Sand	Unknown
Pace Sand and Gravel - Century Pit #2	Sand	Unknown
Bluff Springs Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Century Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Escambia County

Storms near this property

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Century, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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
October 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Century	$40,000	High winds from a thunderstorm caused minor damage to eight homes west of Century. Most of the damage was to roofs and out buildings.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Century	$40,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Century	$12,000	High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines in Century.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Century	$12,000	High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines near Century. Wind speeds were estimated at around 70 MPH.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Century	$10,000	Tree and roof damage along with outbuilding damage on Hwy 4 just west of Century.
March 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Century	$10,000	Trees and power lines were blown down near Century.
January 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Century	$5,000	Winds estimated at 70 mph destroyed a metal barn on Highway 4A.
August 2005	Tornado (F0)	Century	$5,000	The weak tornado that developed in Santa Rosa county, west of Munson, moved into Escambia county from the southeast. The weak tornado dissipated near Century. The tornado blew down several trees and power lines just southeast of Century.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Century	$500	Several trees and power lines were blown down just north of Century.
October 2004	Funnel Cloud	Century	-	Local Emergency Management personnel, while looking at wind damage that had occurred earlier in the day, observed a funnel cloud for several minutes. The funnel cloud never touched down and went back into the cloud.
May 2023	Hail	Century	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Century	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Century	-	no account filed
August 1996	Hail	Century	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Escambia County

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1941 USGS Century quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Century quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Century quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Bay Minette quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89001586 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Escambia County	All 38 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.