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One of 97 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 2011 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Dallas Mill Village Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
The listing
- Address. Dickson St. NE. to Russell St. NE., Rison Ave. NE. to Pratt Ave. NE., Huntsville, 35801
- When was it listed? June 2011
- Category. district
- Census division. Huntsville
- National Register reference number. 11000406 - 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
12 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Dallas Mill Village Historic District between 1999 and 2019, burning about 56 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190922-20 |
| 16 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 217 CHRIS RYAN LANE TONEY ALABAMA, AL |
| 12 June 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | HUNTSVILLE BROWNS FERRY / MALONE ROAD, AL |
| 29 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 209 TOWNSEND DR., AL |
| 29 April 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Dallas Mill Village Historic District: 2 producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Molybdenum. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huntsville North Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Teledyne Wah Chang/Huntsville, Ala. | Molybdenum | Unknown | ||
| Baker Terminal | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Base Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant |
Storms near this property
60 of 265 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huntsville, the town this property stands in, in 265 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 134 thunderstorm wind, 60 hail, 31 lightning, 28 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths and 11 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Flash Flood | Huntsville | 1 killed, 1 hurt, $1,500,000 | Heavy rainfall of four to seven inches, most of which occurred in just less than two hours, flooded the Huntsville area. According to newspaper reports, one woman was killed when her car stalled on a flooded bridge on Vermont Road. As she exited the car, she was swept away in the water. A television cameraman was injured when he was swept away by high water while filming. He was rescued by the Huntsville Fire Department. Several other motorists were stranded in high water and were rescued by the fire department. Numerous roads in the area were flooded and subsequently closed. Many local streams and creeks were out of their banks, sending several feet of water into approximately 300 homes and businesses. Several residents were rescued from their homes. Several thousand area customers were without power through the early morning hours due to lightning strikes. A mudslide occurred in Monte Sano State Park covering part of the park road. |
| August 2002 | Lightning | Huntsville | 1 killed, 1 hurt, $100,000 | Four fires were started almost simultaneously by lightning strikes. One man died in a fire caused by a lightning strike. This occurred when the Royal Pines apartment complex caught on fire and damaged eight units. One unit of the University Park Apartments was heavily damaged by a lightning induced fire. One house received attic damage from a fire and one person suffered smoke inhalation. |
| February 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | 2 hurt, $250,000 | A downburst event began around 7:28 pm and continued about 4 minutes until 7:32 pm. Minor damage occurred just west of Huntsville Park with damage at Joe Davis Stadium and a shopping area known as Stadium Place. Several businesses sustained significant damage including an NTB store where the wind collapsed an exterior wall and threw roofing materials across Memorial Parkway. A number of other businesses in the immediate area sustained damage, too. Two people were apparently slightly injured as they sought shelter when the wind struck while eating at one of the restaurants that was damaged. After crossing Memorial Parkway, the downburst worked its way eastward blowing down numerous trees and power lines. The wind damage extended up the west side of a ridge running north from Garth Mountain. Significant damage ends near the top of the ridge. Most homes that were damaged had roof damage that consisted mainly of shingles being removed. One tree fell on a car and severely damaged it. One man was killed as he was walking across the Tennessee River Bridge in Madison County and fell off. County authorities were unsure whether it was directly related to the high wind or he jumped. |
| July 1998 | Lightning | Huntsville | 1 hurt, $75,000 | Lightning struck a tree outside the Huntsville city hall. The tree split in half and collapsed, falling on four city vehicles. A man was struck by lightning while doing yard work, he was transported to the hospital in critical condition. |
| January 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | 1 hurt, $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Huntsville | 1 hurt, $10,000 | A short lived tornado produced scattered wind damage just southwest of Huntsville with a few trees snapped in half and one tree fell onto a home. One person was slightly injured due to the falling tree. |
| January 1997 | Lightning | Huntsville | 1 hurt, $10,000 | no account filed |
| October 2014 | Lightning | Huntsville | 1 hurt | A person was struck by lightning and was slightly injured. |
| May 2006 | Lightning | Huntsville | 1 hurt | Lightning struck adjacent to the National Weather Service office on the campus of the University of Alabama at Huntsville. A National Weather Service employee who was on-duty viewed the close flash through an adjacent window and experienced a jolt of electricity while using the telephone. Afterwards, the employee noticed a tingling sensation in his ear, arms and experienced a severe headache through that evening. No apparent damage was observed in the office or on office grounds. |
| May 2006 | Lightning | Huntsville | 1 hurt | A woman received minor injuries due to a lightning strike. Other details unknown. |
| June 2012 | Lightning | Huntsville | $250,000 | Lightning associated with the severe thunderstorms moving through Madison county, struck 10 homes and produced quite a bit of fire damage to these residences across the county. |
| September 2013 | Lightning | Huntsville | $200,000 | Lightning was suspected to have caused a house fire on Gables Brook Drive. Severe fire damage occurred to the home along with the roof collapsing as per the broadcast media photo and news report. No injuries occurred. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $150,000 | several trees and power lines down and two apartment buildings sustained major roof and structural damage. |
| May 1998 | Lightning | Huntsville | $100,000 | Lightning struck an apartment building, setting it ablaze. Two apartments were heavily damaged and four others suffered moderate damage. A firefighter was injured while battling the blaze. |
| September 2011 | Lightning | Huntsville | $50,000 | Lightning sparked a fire at the Warren House apartments in northwest Huntsville. Extensive roof damage resulted. |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $50,000 | Strong wind severely damaged a large section of the Bethco manufacturing facility on Dug Hill Road. No injuries were reported among the 80 employees working in the building at the time of the damage. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $50,000 | Thunderstorm wind that gusted to 58 mph took the roof off the fire department building located at the Huntsville International Airport. There were other reports from around the county of a few trees falling in the wind. At one point about 1,500 customers were without electrical power due primarily to trees falling on lines and lightning. Three-quarter inch hail was reported at Chase just east of Huntsville. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $50,000 | Trees were reported down in Huntsville, Oakwood, and Hazel Green. |
| July 1997 | Lightning | Huntsville | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $45,000 | Telephone poles and trees were reported down in southwestern portions of downtown Huntsville. A telephone pole fell on a house. |
| April 2001 | Lightning | Huntsville | $45,000 | Lightning apparently struck a pine tree close to the rear of a house on Carlisle Drive in Huntsville. The lightning traveled down the tree and jumped to guttering and into the house causing a fire that severely damaged the upper floor of the house. The rest of the house suffered smoke and water damage. Lightning detection equipment, part of a joint UAH/NWS project indicated the lightning strike was a positive polarity stroke. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $45,000 | Thunderstorm wind downed a large tree in Huntsville that fell on three cars. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $42,000 | At the Huntsville International Airport, the National Weather Service recorded a wind gust to 64 mph. Five cars and two airplanes were damaged, and several buildings at the airport sustained minor damage. |
| February 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Huntsville | $40,000 | A small tornado described by eye witnesses as a smooth funnel touched down in northwest Huntsville. The damage began near the intersection of Capshaw Road and Wall Triana Highway. The tornado damage path extended nearly due east for some distance before turning east-northeast and ending just west of Rideout Road. A damage survey was conducted of this event by meteorologists from UAH who described the damage path as narrow, focused, and convergent. Additional damage occurred in northeast Huntsville in the Chase area and may possibly have been another weak tornado touchdown. Beginning: 34 46.378/86 45.006 Ending: 34 46.769/86 40.393 |
| March 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $35,000 | Winds with a thunderstorm damaged a portion of an apartment complex removing the roof to at least one section. Eighteen families were displaced by the storm damage. One home nearby was damaged when a tree fell on it and about three other homes reported minor damage. A funnel cloud was reported near A & M University in North Huntsville. |
| July 1997 | Lightning | Huntsville | $35,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Lightning | Huntsville | $30,000 | Lightning strikes caused several house fires around the city. A few homes had only minor smoke damage but a few others sustained substantial fire and water damage. One firefighter received minor injuries when falling debris landed on him inside one of the homes. |
| August 1999 | Lightning | Huntsville | $30,000 | Lightning struck the roof of a home in Huntsville and started a fire. The fire heavily damaged the roof of the home. |
| September 2012 | Lightning | Huntsville | $25,000 | Lightning struck a home and produced minor to moderate damage to it as it caught on fire in Huntsville. |
| January 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $25,000 | Wind damage was reported from northeast of Capshaw in Limestone County to just south of Harvest in Madison County. The downburst knocked down several power lines and some fencing. Several roofs blown off of utility buildings and out-houses. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $25,000 | Wind knocked out several windows in the Huntsville Stars baseball stadium sky box. It also knocked over several signs in the outfield and the Marlboro Man was "decapitated." Several large limbs were also down in the area. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Huntsville | $20,000 | A flash flood brought knee deep water to two homes in a residential community along Auburn Avenue and Stanford Street. |
| May 2006 | Lightning | Huntsville | $20,000 | At least two homes were struck by lightning igniting fires. Time estimated. At one residence in northwest Huntsville on Gunnison Lane, a law enforcement officer who witnessed the fire rescued the occupant. This home experienced extensive fire damage in the attic. Another structure was ignited by lightning on Hudson Drive in the Moores Mill area. |
| November 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged two large buildings on the south end of Redstone Arsenal. Several trees were also blown down and three homes suffered minor roof damage due to the thunderstorm winds. |
| February 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $20,000 | Two tractor trailers were blown over on US 72 east of Huntsville. |
| April 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $20,000 | Trees were down on the northwest side of the city. |
| July 1996 | Lightning | Huntsville | $20,000 | no account filed |
| February 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $18,000 | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $15,000 | A couple of power poles were blown down by thunderstorm winds in Huntsville. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $15,000 | Thunderstorm wind damage knocked 2 trees down on top of a pickup truck at the intersection of Gallatin and Marsheutz. Time estimated based on radar. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $15,000 | One large tree fell into an auto business causing damage in the city of Madison. Wind gusts measured at the Huntsville International Airport reached 68 miles an hour at 535 PM local time. |
| June 1999 | Lightning | Huntsville | $15,000 | Lightning knocked out five power substations operated by Huntsville Utilities. Service was disrupted to about 5,000 customers for several hours. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $15,000 | Numerous reports of trees and power lines down were received from across the city of Huntsville. Power outages were widespread across the area and many roads were blocked because of downed trees. |
| September 1997 | Lightning | Huntsville | $15,000 | Lightning struck a home in Monrovia and caused moderate damage to the inside of the house and the roof. |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Huntsville | $15,000 | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $10,000 | A few power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds just southwest of Huntsville. |
| August 2011 | Lightning | Huntsville | $10,000 | Lightning struck and damaged several computers and equipment pm Westcorp Boulevard near Huntsville. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $10,000 | Trees were knocked down onto two pick-up trucks on near the intersection of Gallatin and Marsheutz Roads. Time estimated by radar. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $10,000 | A few trees were blown down in Huntsville. One automobile was damaged when a tree fell on it. |
| May 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Huntsville | $10,000 | A weak tornado touched down briefly south of Huntsville at the corner of Airport Road and Memorial Parkway. The awning of a Winn Dixie was ripped off. It was seen and video taped by several citizens and by a Channel 31 meteorologist. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $10,000 | Emergency management reported large trees down on Sparkman Drive west of Blue Springs, on Green Mountain Road and East Bailey Cove, and on Walls Drive and Carrigen. Some power lines were also down. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| January 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Lightning | Huntsville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Huntsville | $10,000 | no account filed |
Newspapers printed here
2,796 digitised pages2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 695 issues, 2,796 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The Huntsville Star | 1900 to 19?? |
| Huntsville Gazette | 1879 to 1894 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Vaught House | 0.2 miles | 1981 |
 | Dallas Mill | 0.3 miles | 1978 |
 | Lincoln School | 0.4 miles | 1982 |
 | Lincoln Mill and Mill Village Historic District | 0.4 miles | 2010 |
 | Five Points Historic District | 0.5 miles | 2012 |
 | Old Town Historic District | 0.5 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 11000406 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.