Gurley Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Gurley Historic District is a historic district in Gurley, Alabama. The district was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1995 and the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.”
Wikipedia article Gurley Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 97 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 2004 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Section Line St., Rialroad St., Maple Blvd. and Church St. bet. Gurley Pike and Jackson St., Gurley, 35748
When was it listed? June 2004
Category. district
Census division. Gurley
National Register reference number. 04000562 - 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

37 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Gurley Historic District between 1997 and 2016, burning about 337 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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	15
Arson/incendiarism	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	3

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 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2007	Smoking	27 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20120813-001

Every fire recorded in Madison 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 Gurley 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Elm 1 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

34 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gurley, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 6 flash flood, 5 flood. 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
April 2006	Hail	Gurley	$100,000	Baseball size hail occurred in this vicinity and was measured at four to five inches deep. Extensive tree damage was also noted along with slight to moderate damage to several vehicles and seven residences.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Gurley	$20,000	A mobile home was blown off a trailer transport.
June 1996	Lightning	Gurley	$20,000	no account filed
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Gurley	$12,000	Trees and some power lines were reported down from Gurley to the eastern edge of the county.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Gurley	$8,000	Trees were blown down near the intersection of highway 72 and Gurley Pike.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Gurley	$6,000	Public report received via social media of several trees down on Keel Mountain Road near the intersection of Laurel Lane. There was also one tree that fell on a home. Time estimated by radar.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Gurley	$5,000	Power lines were reported knocked down from Childress to Jackson roads.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Gurley	$2,000	A tree was blown down at 791 Gurley Pike.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Gurley	$2,000	A few power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds in the Salty Bottom Road area near Gurley.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Gurley	$1,000	A tree was reported down on Chruch Street. Time estimate from radar.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Gurley	$1,000	Trees were snapped at 351 Old Gurley Pike.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Gurley	$1,000	A tree and power line was knocked down on Gurley Pike.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Gurley	$500	A tree was knocked down on utility equipment at Keel Mountain Road in Gurley.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Gurley	$500	A tree was knocked down in Gurley.
July 2023	Hail	Gurley	-	Penny sized hail was reported in Gurley.
June 2023	Hail	Gurley	-	Hail larger than a quarter was reported in Gurley. Time estimated by radar.
March 2021	Flash Flood	Gurley	-	Car submerged at Rock Road at Hwy 72. Water was flowing over the roadway, but depth of water unknown at this time.
October 2021	Flash Flood	Gurley	-	Flooding reported along Little Cove Road.
September 2021	Flash Flood	Gurley	-	Car submerged on Hwy 72 between Gurley and Paint Rock. Image seen on social media.
September 2021	Flood	Gurley	-	Video of roads flooded on social media at the intersection of Rock Cut Road and U.S. Highway 72 in Gurley.
March 2018	Flood	Gurley	-	McMullen Lane at Old Cove Place are covered with water. Flooding is from heavy rainfall, not river flooding just yet.
March 2018	Flood	Gurley	-	Little Cove Road being closed due to floodwaters from the Flint River covering the roadway.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Gurley	-	A 30 by 40 foot section of metal roofing was blown onto the intersection of Miller and Gray Roads in Gurley.
January 2011	Flash Flood	Gurley	-	Heavy rainfall caused some roads to be impassable in and near the Gurley community. A car was stranded as it drove into a flooded roadway southwest of Gurley. Rock Cut road was closed due to flash flooding in the same area.
January 2009	Flood	Gurley	-	Heavy rainfall caused isolated flooding to occur in the Gurley area near and at the intersection of highway 72 and Cut Rock Road.
January 2009	Flash Flood	Gurley	-	Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding to occur at the intersection of Little Cove Road and McMullen Road, leaving the intersection completely underwater.
December 2008	Flood	Gurley	-	Moderate to heavy rainfall atop already saturated soils produced renewed flooding on small creeks and streams in central Madison County in and around the Hampton Cove community. Little Cove, Cherry Tree, and Bailey Cove Roads experienced flooding. Little Cove Road was impassible during much of this period.
August 2008	Hail	Gurley	-	Penny sized hail was reported in Gurley.
August 2008	Hail	Gurley	-	Golf ball size hail was reported by the Gurley Fire Department.
April 2006	Hail	Gurley	-	Quarter size hail was reported.
February 2005	Hail	Gurley	-	Golf ball size hail reported.
July 2005	Flash Flood	Gurley	-	Torrential rain from a thunderstorm resulted in several inches of water covering roads.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Gurley	-	A few power lines were blown down.
July 1995	Hail	Gurley	-	Golf ball-size hail was reported in Gurley in east-central Madison County.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Steger House	5.4 miles	1982
	McCartney-Bone House	6.8 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000562 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison County	All 97 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.