Tankersley Rosenwald School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The Tankersley Rosenwald School (1922-1967), also known as the Tankersley Elementary School, is a historic building and a former Rosenwald School for African American students in Hope Hull, Alabama, a suburb of Montgomery.”
Wikipedia article Tankersley Rosenwald School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 71 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.

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.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 10 mi. S. on Montgomery on US 31 to Pettus Rd. to School Spur on W. side, Hope Hull, 36043
When was it listed? January 2009
Category. building
Also known as. The Rosenwald School Building Fund and Associated Buildings MPS
Census division. Hope Hull
National Register reference number. 08001332 - 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

63 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Tankersley Rosenwald School between 1994 and 2020, burning about 580 acres in total. 1 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	25
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	78 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160925-19
21 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190921-10
21 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190921-21
21 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	5.3 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190921-20
13 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this property

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hope Hull, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2009: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
March 2005	Hail	Hope Hull	$22,000	no account filed
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hope Hull	$17,000	A roof was torn off a business on US 31 near Hope Hull.
June 2005	Funnel Cloud	Hope Hull	-	A funnel cloud was sighted near the Hope Hull community.
March 2002	Hail	Hope Hull	-	Nickel size hail was reported at the Rodeway Inn along Interstate 65.
June 2009	Hail	Hope Hull	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Hope Hull	-	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	Hope Hull	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08001332 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery County	All 71 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.
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.