Huntsville, Alabama

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Madison County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 78 shown

• Episcopal Church of the NativityNational Historic Landmark · listed 1974
• Neutral Buoyancy Space SimulatorNational Historic Landmark · listed 1985
• Propulsion and Structural Test FacilityNational Historic Landmark · listed 1985
• Redstone Test StandNational Historic Landmark · listed 1976
• Saturn V Dynamic Test StandNational Historic Landmark · listed 1985
• Saturn V Space VehicleNational Historic Landmark · listed 1978
• Beckers Blocklisted 1980
• Big Springlisted 1980
• Building at 105 N. Washington Streetlisted 1984
• Building at 305 Jeffersonlisted 2003
• Buildings at 104-128 S. Side Sq.listed 1980
• William Burritt Mansionlisted 1992

Every listing in Madison County

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 78 shown

• 1001 Meridian Street (House), Huntsvillefederal building survey, 1 photograph
• 11 North Broad Place, Southwest (House), 11 North Broad Place, Southwest, Huntsvillefederal building survey, 1 photograph
• 1100 Block Meridian Street (Commercial), Huntsvillefederal building survey, 1 photograph
• 115 King Avenue (House), Huntsvillefederal building survey, 1 photograph
• 124-126 King Avenue (House & Outbuilding), 124-126 King Avenue, Huntsvillefederal building survey, 1 photograph
• 1940 Ford G.P. - No. 1 (Pygmy), 2060A Airport Road, Huntsvillefederal building survey, 23 photographs
• 215 Abington Avenue (House), 215 Abington Avenue, Huntsvillefederal building survey, 1 photograph
• 2709 Ninth Avenue (House), Huntsvillefederal building survey, 1 photograph
• 2804 Ninth Avenue (house), 2804 Ninth Avenue, Huntsvillefederal building survey, 2 photographs
• 301 Abington Avenue (House), Huntsvillefederal building survey, 1 photograph
• 3312-3314 Alpine Street, Southwest (House), 3312-3314 Alpine Street, Southwest, Huntsvillefederal building survey, 1 photograph
• 3315 Alpine Street, Southwest (House), Huntsvillefederal building survey, 1 photograph

Every surveyed structure in Madison County

Huntsville grew from 180,105 to 215,006 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1888 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1936 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:24000
• 1950 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

1 chapter about Huntsville from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Huntsville between 1999 and 2011, burning about 34 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Echols Hill
• Greenhill
• Lincoln
• Terry Heights
• West Huntsville
• Canterbury

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Huntsville: 1 plant, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Madison County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huntsville in 265 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 134 thunderstorm wind, 60 hail, 31 lightning, 28 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths and 11 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Madison County

2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 695 issues, 2,796 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 5 issues spread across its run from 1881 to 1900, 18,475 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 151827. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.