New Sharon, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Hazel Green census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35750. The Survey maps it on the Toney quadrangle.

New Sharon within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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.

1888 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Toney quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Toney quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

64 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of New Sharon between 1998 and 2020, burning about 182 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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	28
Arson/incendiarism	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	3
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
9 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Smoking	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

12 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Sharon in 12 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 lightning, 1 hail. 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
July 2012	Lightning	New Sharon	$250,000	Lightning sparked a fire at a residence at 1098 Scott Road in Toney. The residents were not at home during the fire. The home was considered a total loss.
May 2004	Tornado (F1)	New Sharon	$75,000	A F1 tornado touched down in New Sharon along Charity Lane and moved eastnortheast to the Tennessee state line. Several buildings sustained roof damage. In addition, widespread tree and power line damage occurred.
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	New Sharon	$40,000	A very large tree was knocked down onto a home on Butter and Egg Road.
March 2011	Lightning	New Sharon	$5,000	Lightning hit a house, which was then on fire. Four people were at home and got out of the house safely.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	New Sharon	$3,000	A tree was knocked down onto power lines at 184 Stafford Road.
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	New Sharon	$3,000	Trees and power lines were knocked down on Charity lane.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	New Sharon	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down onto State Line Road.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	New Sharon	$500	A telephone pole was knocked down on Elkwood Section Road.
March 2018	Tornado (EF1)	New Sharon	-	The tornado began near the intersection of Will Holt Road and Bobo Section Road where several large trees were snapped and uprooted. Significant damage occurred just east of this location, on Delynn Drive, where multiple trees were uprooted, some of which fell onto nearby homes. Minor damage continued east along Larkin Sullivan Road and Hills Chapel Road.\|\|The rear flank downdraft also produced damage south of the tornado path along Bob Section Road. These winds snapped and uprooted trees and damaged a few sheds and farm buildings.\|\|The most notable tornado damage occurred upon reaching Highway 231, where the tornado hit a building supply yard and nearby houses. More than a quarter of the shingles were removed from a single family home and a nearby tree was twisted apart. At the building supply store, metal roofing and siding covering the supplies were \|completely removed and the underlying wooden support structure broken. The metal roofing was strewn across the street and into a field. Security video footage confirms the presence of a circulation of a rain-wrapped tornado. The tornado caused further shingle damage and snapped more trees across the highway near Walls Road and Leigh Ann Road, but the damage appears to diminish quickly beyond this point.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	New Sharon	-	Trees were knocked down and blocked Scott Road just north of Bobo Section Road.
April 2014	Tornado (EF1)	New Sharon	-	A tornado touched down along Charity Lane between Stafford and Butter-and-Egg Roads. It tracked almost directly eastward along Charity Lane, snapping and uprooting hundreds of trees and causing minor roof damage to multiple houses. At Charity Baptist Church, the tornado uprooted a very large oak tree believed to be around 150 years old. It began tracking more to the northeast as it reached Frank Patterson Road, continuing to snap many more trees in the Hazel Trace and Hazelwood Drive area. It crossed Highway 231/431, collapsing a carport near Carriger road. The tornado continued to snap and uproot many more trees along Mulberry Road, Bevills Church Road, Greenville Pike, and Everett Jones Road. The tornado dissipated just east of Everett Jones Road, just south of Borderline Road and the Tennessee State Line.
March 2012	Hail	New Sharon	-	One inch hail was reported at the 1500 block of Elkwood Section Road.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Carter Grove	2.9 miles	21
Five Points	2.9 miles	21
Fisk	3.8 miles	21
Hazel Green	3.8 miles	21
Browns Corner	3.9 miles	21
Bobo	4.6 miles	21
Ready Crossing	4.7 miles	21
State Line	4.8 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156788. 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.

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.