State Park No. 4-Weogufka State Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Coosa County · listed in 2024 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. CCC Camp Road approx., 1.3 miles southeast of intersection with Lay Dam Road, Weogufka, 35183
When was it listed? November 2024
Category. district
Census division. Weogufka-Marble Valley
National Register reference number. 100010427 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

114 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of State Park No. 4-Weogufka State Park between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,970 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 41 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
Arson/incendiarism	41
Debris and open burning	29
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2002	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Coosa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of State Park No. 4-Weogufka State Park: 6 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Graphite, Uranium, Kyanite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Coosa-Chilton District	Graphite, Mica, Vanadium	Past Producer	BEDDED
Weogufka Creek Prospect	Kyanite	Occurrence
Unnamed Occurrence	Uranium, Graphite	Occurrence	1974
Unnamed Occurrence	Uranium, Graphite	Occurrence	1974
Teel Property	Graphite	Occurrence
Hatchet Creek Placer	Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Hatchet Creek Placer	Gold	Prospect
Stewart Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Stewart's Au Mine Parson's Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Stewart's Mine	Gold	Unknown

Every working recorded in Coosa County

Storms near this property

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weogufka, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 flash 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
March 2011	Flash Flood	Weogufka	$75,000	County Road 56 and County Road 16 were flooded on Weogufka Creek.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Weogufka	$2,000	Trees and power lines were blown down in and near Weogufka.
March 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Weogufka	$2,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down across western Coosa County. The damage was mainly confined to rural areas.
February 1998	Hail	Weogufka	$2,000	Hail the size of quarters was reported in Unity.
February 2025	Tornado (EF0)	Weogufka	-	The National Weather Service surveyed in northern Coosa County\|and determined the damage to be consistent with an EF-0 tornado.\|The tornado initially touched down along County Road 55, where a\|few softwood trees were downed. The tornado caused significant\|tree damage across a wooded area east of CR 55, with many\|uprooted trees. Along Prater Rd, several softwood trees sustained\|minor damage. From there, the tornado tracked east-northeast\|crossing County Road 29, just north of the Weogufka Family\|Worship Center. Here, several softwood trees were uprooted along\|with several homes that received minor damage. The tornado\|continued crossing County Road 41 where additional trees were\|uprooted and power lines were damaged due to the tree fall. The\|tornado then crossed Hwy 231 and 280, where softwood trees were\|both uprooted and snapped, and some additional tin shed damage\|was noted. Maximum winds were estimated at 80 mph.
May 2023	Hail	Weogufka	-	Large hail removed leaves from trees with vegetation covering roadways.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Weogufka	-	Several trees uprooted on Coosa County Road 29.
March 2021	Tornado (EF0)	Weogufka	-	National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northwest Coosa County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 65 mph. The tornado began and ended around County Road 56. Damage was limited to an uprooted pine tree, and several trees had broken branches. A brief TDS was also noted on the BMX radar.
March 2019	Tornado (EF0)	Weogufka	-	National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in Coosa County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 70 mph.\|\|This brief weak tornado was from the same storm that produced the EF0 tornado in far western Coosa County. The only damage observed consisted of snapped and uprooted trees.
December 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Weogufka	-	A few trees were uprooted in northern Coosa County near Weogufka.
May 2005	Hail	Weogufka	-	Dime to penny size hail fell along and near US 231 east of Weogufka.
December 2005	Hail	Weogufka	-	Quarter size hail was reported just north of Bozo's Fish Camp in extreme northwestern Coosa County at Lay Lake.
July 2002	Hail	Weogufka	-	Quarter size hail was reported in Weogufka.
May 2001	Hail	Weogufka	-	Dime size hail fell near Weogufka.

Every storm recorded in Coosa 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 100010427 in Record Group 79.
Coosa County	All 2 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.