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One of 22 National Register listings published here for Perry County · listed in 2022 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Lincoln Normal School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
The listing
- Address. 205 Lincoln St., Marion, 36756
- When was it listed? November 2022
- Category. site
- Census division. Marion
- National Register reference number. 100001479 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
372 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 372 fires within 5 miles of Lincoln Normal School between 1994 and 2020, burning about 977 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 22 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 | 130 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 88 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 56 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Smoking | 22 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 18 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
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 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20200908-1 |
| 8 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 13 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2006 | Natural | 129 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1995 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Storms near this property
37 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marion, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 2 tornado. 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 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | $150,000 | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | $100,000 | Thousands of trees were blown down across Perry County. |
| March 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Marion | $95,000 | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Tornado (EF1) | Marion | $30,000 | The tornado touched down in a wooded ravine, between Nichols Lane and CR-7. It then traveled east-northeast for just over a mile, and lifted near the intersection of Coles Truck Stop Road and AL-5. Along the path, approximately 100 hardwood trees were snapped, and near the end of the path, several hardwoods were uprooted. A home sustained minor damage to shingles and siding. The occupant of the home took refuge in a closet, and was unharmed, after her brother called to inform her of the tornado warning. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Marion | $25,000 | A swath of large hail occurred from west central Perry County near Scotts Station to near the Vaiden Airport. The hail may have been much larger in surrounding rural areas. A few trees were also blown down and one outbuilding was destroyed. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | $10,000 | Numerous trees and several power lines were blown down on the western side of the city of Marion. |
| January 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | $10,000 | A deteriorating car repair garage was destroyed due to wind getting into the old building and blowing it out. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | $10,000 | A roof of a downtown building was damaged, blowing debris over the area. Several large trees were also uprooted as well. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Marion | $10,000 | Golf ball size hail was reported in Radford. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Marion | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Marion | $8,000 | A swath of hail fell across central Perry County associated with supercell 3. Hail was reported from penny size to ping pong ball size. A few locations observed minor accumulations of the hail. The hail may have been larger in the rural areas and was therefore not observed. |
| November 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | $6,000 | Thunderstorm wind snapped trees north of Marion. There were also reports of structural damage north of Marion. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | $5,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down on the eastern side of Marion. |
| February 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | $3,000 | Several trees were blown down near the intersection of of SR 5 and CR 38. |
| March 2000 | Hail | Marion | $3,000 | One inch diameter size hail fell in Marion. |
| March 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | $2,000 | Several trees were blown down northeast of Marion. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | $2,000 | Several trees were blown down on CR-7, north of Marion. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Marion | $2,000 | Quarter to golf ball size hail was observed in and around the city of Marion. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | $1,000 | A tree was blown down and it blocked a road in Marion County. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Marion | $1,000 | Quarter size hail briefly fell near the Coleman community. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | - | Multiple trees were downed with power outages around Marion and Sprott. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | - | Multiple trees were blown down around Marion. |
| December 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | - | A few trees were downed around the Perry County. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | - | Numerous trees uprooted in and around the city of Marion. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | - | Several trees uprooted in Marion. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Marion | - | Quarter size hail reported a few miles north of Marion. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | - | A few homes sustained minor roof damage in Marion. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | - | Two homes along Oakcrest Drive sustained minor roof damage due to fallen trees. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Marion | - | Penny size hail was reported near the Perry Municipal Airport along CR 45. |
| February 2001 | Hail | Marion | - | Quarter size hail was reported near Marion. |
| December 2000 | Hail | Marion | - | Dime size hail was observed in the city of Marion. |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | - | Several trees were down and at least one power line in the city of Marion according to the police department there. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| March 2013 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| February 2007 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Phillips Memorial Auditorium | under 500 feet | 1990 |
 | First Congregational Church of Marion | 0.2 miles | 1982 |
 | Chapel and Lovelace Hall, Marion Military Institute | 0.5 miles | 1978 |
 | West Marion Historic District | 0.5 miles | 1993 |
 | President's House, Marion Institute | 0.5 miles | 1979 |
 | Green Street Historic District | 0.6 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001479 in Record Group 79. |
| Perry County | All 22 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.