Muscle Shoals Sound Studio

Built in 1969. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“Muscle Shoals Sound Studio is an American recording studio in Sheffield, Alabama, formed in 1969 by four session musicians known as the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. They had left nearby FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals to create their own recording facility.”
Wikipedia article Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Colbert County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · built in 1969.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3614 Jackson Hwy., Sheffield, 35660
When was it listed? June 2006
Category. building
Census division. Tri-Cities
When was it built? 1969
National Register reference number. 06000437 - 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

47 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio between 1994 and 2016, burning about 180 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
28 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	673 CR 72, AL
28 August 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20130828-001
28 August 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20130828-002
30 June 2008	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	2305 SIXTH ST, AL
29 June 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	6TH STREET, AL
24 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	GORDON AREA, AL

Every fire recorded in Colbert County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Aluminum. 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
	Colbert County Hwy. Dept. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Lister Hill Reduction Plant	Silica, Aluminum	Plant

Every working recorded in Colbert County

Storms near this property

60 of 117 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheffield, the town this property stands in, in 117 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 96 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 8 flash flood, 2 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
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$100,000	Numerous trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds from near Sheffield to just east of New Bethel, and in the Littleville area. In the Littleville area, a tree was blown onto a house and a building overhang was blown away due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$30,000	Multiple trees and power outages were blown down across much of the area in Sheffield.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$10,000	A tree was knocked down onto a house at 407 Annapolis Avenue.
June 2013	Lightning	Sheffield	$10,000	Lightning struck a structure, starting a fire and produced minor damage, on Pine Street.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$10,000	A tree and power lines were knocked down on Forest Avenue.
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$10,000	no account filed
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$10,000	no account filed
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$8,000	Trees and power lines reported down.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$7,500	A power pole was reported leaning or down near the 400 block of Annapolis Avenue. \|Time was estimated from radar.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$6,000	Multiple trees were reported down including onto vehicles in Sheffield.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$5,000	A tree was knocked down onto a house at 302 Darby Avenue.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$5,000	A tree was downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 1997	Hail	Sheffield	$5,000	no account filed
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$5,000	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$5,000	no account filed
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$4,000	Trees and power lines were knocked down at the 400 block of Pittsburg Street in Sheffield.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$4,000	A power pole was knocked down on Montgomery Avenue.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$3,000	A power pole and transformer was reported down at 3001 NE 19th Avenue.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$3,000	Trees were knocked down onto a car and power lines were knocked down.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$3,000	A tree was blown down on N Columbia Avenue.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$3,000	A tree was blown down on E 32nd Street.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down two trees on a house.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$2,000	A power pole was knocked down at 721 South Columbia Avenue. This is a corrected report.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$2,000	A power pole was knocked down at 1606 E 30th Street.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$2,000	A tree was knocked down on power lines at 1405 York Street.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$2,000	A power pole was reported leaning or blown down near 501 W 20th Avenue. Time was estimated from radar data.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$2,000	A pole was reported lean or knocked down near 402 E 7th Street. Time was estimated from radar data.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$2,000	A tree was blown down near the intersection of Moody Lane and Cross Lane.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$2,000	Power lines were knocked down at Mitchell Blvd.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$2,000	A tree was knocked down at the 600 block of Columbia Avenue.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$2,000	A tree was blown down in Sheffeild.
February 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$2,000	Several trees were blown down in Sheffield
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree was reported down and the intersection of E 25th Street and E 15th Street.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree was knocked down at 2511 E 14th Avenue.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A large tree fell across the road near 29th street and 13th Avenue.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree was knocked down at 1403 NE 25th Street.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree knocked down at 509 Park Blvd blocking the road.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree was knocked down at 2908 NE 14th Avenue.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree was reported down near the intersection of 19th Avenue and 31st Street. Time was estimated from radar data.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree was reported down near 3502 18th Ct. Time was estimated from radar data.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree was reported down near 701 N Atlanta Avenue. Time was estimated from radar data.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree was reported down near 1416 Alabama Avenue. Time was estimated from radar data.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree was reported down near 503 River Bluff Drive. Time was estimated from radar data.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree was knocked down at 3104 NE 19th Avenue.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree was reported down at 3107 NE 19th Avenue. Time was estimated from radar data.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree was reported down at 2706 NE 14th Avenue. Time was estimated from radar data.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree was reported down near the intersection of N Columbia Avenue and 5th Street. Time was estimated from radar data.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree was knocked down onto a vehicle at this location on North Montgomery Avenue. Time was estimated from radar.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree was reported down at this location on North Atlanta Avenue. Time was estimated from radar.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree was reported down near the intersection of NE 17th and NE 28th Street.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree was reported down near the Greater Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree was knocked down onto a house and power lines at 910 NE 28th Street.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	A tree was knocked down onto a home.
January 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$500	A tree was knocked down. Time estimate by radar.
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$500	A tree was knocked down on North Atlanta Avenue.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$500	A tree was knocked down by gust front winds at 805 Austin Avenue. Time estimated by radar.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$500	A tree was knocked down by gust front winds at 744 Lakewood Drive. Time estimated by radar.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$500	A tree was knocked down by thunderstorm winds at 2605 NE 17th Avenue. Time estimated by radar.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$500	A tree was knocked down.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$500	A tree was knocked down near Little Rock Avenue and West 5th Street in Sheffield. Time estimated by radar.

Every storm recorded in Colbert 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
E.L. Newman Lustron House	0.4 miles	2000
Memphis & Charleston Railroad Bridge (Additional Documentation)	1.0 miles	2024
Chambers-Robinson House	1.3 miles	1993
Sheffield Residential Historic District	1.4 miles	2002
Sheffield Downtown Commercial Historic District	1.5 miles	2010
Florence, Alabama Music Enterprises (FAME) Recording Studios	1.6 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000437 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Colbert County	All 29 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.