Margaret, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Springville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35112. The Survey maps it on the Odenville quadrangle. 5,106 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.

Margaret within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 printed sheets

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.

1889 USGS Springville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Springville quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Odenville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Odenville quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

139 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Margaret between 1994 and 2017, burning about 1,207 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 41 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	63
Arson/incendiarism	41
Recreation and ceremony	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2
Fireworks	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
8 September 1998	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160927-9

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Margaret: 4 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Copper, Limestone, General. 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	Recorded
Odenville Copper Prospect	Copper, Limestone, General	Occurrence	1925
Odenville	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Prospect

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

14 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Margaret in 14 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Margaret	1 hurt	Large tree down on house on Michael Street with one injury.
November 2001	Tornado (F2)	Margaret	$300,000	no account filed
September 2009	Flash Flood	Margaret	$50,000	Flooding, described as major, was reported in Argo, with almost a foot of water into some businesses on Main Street.
May 2002	Hail	Margaret	$5,000	Golf ball size hail was observed in Margaret.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Margaret	$5,000	Numerous trees were blown down in and around Margaret.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Margaret	-	Numerous trees and power lines were downed in the Argo, Odenville, and Ashville areas. Notably, Roulain Rd near Argo was blocked by fallen trees and power lines, and Liberty Rd near Odenville was blocked by trees, with a vehicle accident occurring.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Margaret	-	Multiple trees were downed in the Argo and Margaret areas.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Margaret	-	Several trees uprooted in the town of Margaret.
January 2012	Tornado (EF1)	Margaret	-	The tornado initially touched down in central Jefferson county and tracked northeastward for 15.69 miles, before lifting in western St. Clair county. The tornado crossed into St. Clair county south of Will Keith Rd, near Mary Ann Ln, moving northeast with winds of 105 MPH. The tornado continued to damage homes and down trees, before crossing Interstate 59, 1.37 miles northeast of Exit 148, with a path width of 300 yds. To the east of Interstate 59, the tornado tracked through Argo, crossing U.S. Highway 11 north of Angus St, downing numerous trees and causing minor to moderate damage to several homes. One home was destroyed when a large tree fell. As the tornado continued northeast, several manufactured homes sustained minor damage along Hidden Valley Drive. The tornado lifted just northeast of Country Living Cir, where several more trees were uprooted.
September 2009	Flash Flood	Margaret	-	Flooding was reported on Main Street, near the Post Office, in Margaret.
April 2003	Hail	Margaret	-	Penny size hail was observed west of Margaret around Argo.
April 2017	Hail	Margaret	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Margaret	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Margaret	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair County

Nearest settlements

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

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hill Number 1	0.3 miles	19
Hill Number 2	0.5 miles	19
Turnbough Town	0.9 miles	19
Sanie	1.8 miles	19
Copper Springs	2.0 miles	19
Misty Pines	2.6 miles	27
Shady Acres	2.7 miles	19
Green Acres Estates	3.0 miles	19

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on Margaret	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65784	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 164749. 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.