Warden's Residence

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“The Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge Warden's Residence, also known simply as Warden's Residence, is a house in Triana, Alabama. It was built in 1941 by the Civilian Conservation Corps to serve as the residence of the warden of Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge.”
Wikipedia article Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge Warden's Residence, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 97 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 151 Stone St, Triana, 35756
When was it listed? May 2010
Category. building
Census division. Triana
National Register reference number. 10000258 - 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

57 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Warden's Residence between 1994 and 2016, burning about 710 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	10
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	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
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1998	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge	FM 98-7
24 September 1999	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge	FM 98-6
14 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

16 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Triana, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 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
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Triana	$25,000	A bow echo producing widespread wind damage with gusts up to 70 mph moved northeast from Morgan county into Madison county during the evening hours. Numerous trees were blown down across the county and 6,000 utility customers were without power overnight across southeast Huntsville. Wind gusts to 70 mph were recorded for 10 minutes from a station on top of Monte Sano Mountain. Winds were also estimated to reach the 60 to 70 mph range at the Ice Plex in Huntsville. In New Hope, a tree also was blown down on a trailer on Cameron road. Luckily no one was injured in New Hope.
May 2008	Tornado (EF1)	Triana	$10,000	A tornado continued its track into Madison County to a point about 3 miles west northwest of Triana. The tornado intensified to an EF-1 with wind speeds up to 100 mph, uprooting large pine trees and snapping small to medium sized pine trees on the northeast side of Blackwell Swamp.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Triana	$5,000	A tree was downed by thunderstorm winds.
January 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Triana	$2,000	A fence was blown down, siding was blown off of a home and a tree was knocked down.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Triana	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged trees along Zierdt Road in Triana.
February 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Triana	$500	Large tree limbs up to 3 inches in diameter and 12 to 15 feet long were knocked down along Zeirdt Road.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Triana	$500	Trees were knocked down at 329 Landess Circle in Triana.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Triana	$300	A severe thunderstorm knocked down a small tree on Zierdt Road in Triana.
April 2025	Hail	Triana	-	Hail with a diameter of 3/4 inch was reported via mPING.
May 2025	Hail	Triana	-	Hail with a diameter of 1.25 inches was reported via mPING.
May 2025	Hail	Triana	-	Quarter sized hail was reported in Triana. Time estimated by radar.
May 2024	Hail	Triana	-	Quarter size hail was reported at this location.
January 2022	Tornado (EF0)	Triana	-	A tornado crossing County Line Road from Limestone County moved east-northeast, snapping and uprooting dozens of trees as it crossed Jolley B Road and Landess Circle. The tornado\|continued to the east-northeast, uprooting more trees along its path and crossing Wall Triana Highway and 6th Street. As the tornado entered the Towne Lake Neighborhood in Triana, dozens of\|homes had shingles and/or siding removed. It continued to the east, crossing Zeirdt Road where a couple more trees were uprooted before dissipating just east of Record Street.
March 2012	Hail	Triana	-	Nickel sized hail was reported at Fields Pond Drive.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Triana	-	Wind were blown down on Rockhouse Road in New Hope.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Triana	-	Power lines were blown down.

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

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
Redstone Test Stand	5.1 miles	1976
Propulsion and Structural Test Facility	5.2 miles	1985
Saturn V Dynamic Test Stand	5.3 miles	1985
Neutral Buoyancy Space Simulator	5.9 miles	1985
James H. Bibb House	7.8 miles	1984
Madison Station Historic District	8.0 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000258 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.
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.