Skyline Commissary

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“The Skyline Commissary is a historic building in Skyline, Alabama, United States. It was built in 1935 as part of Skyline Farms, a project of the Resettlement Administration, a New Deal program that sought to provide jobs for unemployed farmers on collective farms.”
Wikipedia article Skyline Commissary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. NE. corner of the jct. of Cty. Rds, 25 & 107, Scottsboro, 35768
When was it listed? June 2013
Category. building
Also known as. Skyline Farms Resettlement Project, Jackson County, Alabama MPS
Census division. Princeton
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 13000365 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

23 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Skyline Commissary between 1997 and 2018, burning about 837 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	7
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1998	Smoking	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO RD 107, AL
10 June 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160610-2
27 May 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160527-6
26 May 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160526-1
16 May 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160516-3
13 May 2007	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Skyline Commissary: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Jac 3 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

60 of 122 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scottsboro, the town this property stands in, in 122 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 88 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 7 flash flood, 4 flood. The reports record 3 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
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	2 hurt, $100,000	A downburst struck the Jackson County Park Campground. Several trees and power poles were blown down. A few of the trees fell onto occupied campers resulting in minor injuries to two individuals.
August 2005	Lightning	Scottsboro	1 hurt	A woman was struck by lightning while on the telephone inside her residence. The woman was transported to the hospital for treatment.
May 2024	Tornado (EF0)	Scottsboro	$1,400,000	A tornado snapped tree branches on Old Larkinsville Road. Scattered tree damage was observed continuing generally southeast towards Alabama Highway 35. Limited infrastructure damage was found along Highway 35 including the peeling of metal roofing and siding. Between Highway 35 and Parks Avenue, several trees were found uprooted, snapped, and with loss of limbs.
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$75,000	Thunderstorm winds destroyed 3 mobile homes, one moved off of foundation. Several trees were blown down.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$50,000	A large tree was uprooted and fell onto a home at 514 Veterans Drive in Scottsboro. Time was estimated from radar.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$37,000	Amateur radio storm spotters reported considerable damage to two convenience stores in Goose Pond, about four miles south of Scottsboro on State Highway 79. Trees were also reported down and across State Highway 40 and 418 at Pleasant View. Five mobile homes suffered some type of damage including one where the damage was described as major. A car was blown over on its side at a used car lot.
May 1996	Lightning	Scottsboro	$35,000	no account filed
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$30,000	Eight power lines were blown down along Highway 35 between Randall's Chapel United Methodist Church to Lakeside Grocery. Three of these poles fell onto vehicles traveling the roadway, but no injuries occurred.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$25,000	A large tree was knocked down onto a pickup truck at 2506 South Broad Street in Scottsboro. Time was estimated from radar.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$20,000	A few trees were blown down onto a house, car, and fence causing considerable damage.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$20,000	Radio station WKEA in Scottsboro had a 70 foot high tower blown down and destroyed. Several trees were knocked over in Scottsboro. A tree was also blown over by the wind on South Broad Street in Scottsboro knocking out power in the area.
May 1996	Hail	Scottsboro	$20,000	no account filed
January 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$18,000	no account filed
December 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$15,000	Several trees were blown down around the city of Scottsboro.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$15,000	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Scottsboro	$15,000	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Scottsboro	$12,000	Quarter to baseball size hail was reported in and around the city of Scottsboro. A few large trees were also uprooted.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$10,000	A power pole was snapped on Highway 35.
September 2011	Flood	Scottsboro	$10,000	A long term flood event in Scottsboro led to numerous roads in the city being closed due to high water. The flooding also resulted in several evacuations in the area.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$8,000	Several trees were blown down near the hospital in Scottsboro. Additional trees and some power lines were knocked down south and southwest of the city. Three boat houses and some boats were damaged at the Goose Lake Colony off SR 79. Several boats broke loose in the high wind and damaged each other and the boat houses.
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$8,000	no account filed
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$7,000	Trees and limbs were blown onto power lines causing power outages for over 12 hours in some locations in Scottsboro.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$6,000	Multiple trees were damaged in Scottsboro along Hood Ave, Larry Dr and Byron Rd. Time was estimated from radar.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$5,000	Multiple trees were knocked down along County Park Road in Scottsboro.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$5,000	A tree was knocked down onto a mobile home at 1706 Veterans Drive in Scottsboro.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$5,000	A tree was knocked down onto a home at 112 Benson Lane.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$5,000	A few large limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$5,000	Several trees and a large road sign were blown over in the Scottsboro area.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$5,000	Trees were blown down in Scottsboro and in Stevenson.
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$5,000	no account filed
January 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$4,000	Trees snapped or uprooted near the intersection of highway 35 and highway 72.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$4,000	Two trees were knocked down on College Street in Scottsboro. Time estimated by radar.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$4,000	no account filed
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$3,000	Power pole and lines down across the roadway at 3604 Woods Cove Road.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$3,000	A tree was knocked down onto power lines at 204 Kyle Street in Scottsboro.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$3,000	Power lines were knocked down and a transformer exploded at the intersection of South Broad Street and Hancock Drive East.
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$3,000	Trees and power lines were knocked down at Winn Road and City Park Road.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$3,000	Trees were snapped and uprooted at 1400 Old Larkinsville Road.
November 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$3,000	Large trees were knocked down onto a home causing minor roof damage. Time estimated by radar.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$3,000	Multiple trees were knocked down onto the 500 Block of Law Street.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$3,000	A few power poles were blown down in Scottsboro.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$3,000	Trees were blown down in Scottsboro.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$2,000	A tree and power lines were knocked down at 2917 Hillcrest Drive.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$2,000	Trees were knocked down with power outages reported in Scottsboro.
January 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$2,000	Trees were uprooted and snapped at this location.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds associated with a gust front knocked trees down in the Scottsboro area. Time estimated by radar.
May 1998	Hail	Scottsboro	$2,000	no account filed
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$1,000	A tree was knocked down into the roadway at the intersection of July Mountain Blvd. and Woods Cove Road in Scottsboro.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$1,000	A tree was knocked down at the intersection of Porter Road and Law Street.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$1,000	A tree was knocked down at 700 CR 38.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$1,000	A tree was knocked down onto the roadway blocking one lane at 2103 Roseberry Drive in Scottsboro.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$1,000	A tree was reported down in Scottsboro.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$1,000	A tree was knocked down blocking both lanes at 1800 Woods Cove Road. Time was estimated from radar.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$1,000	A large tree limb was snapped at 1707 Proctor Drive in Scottsboro. Time was estimated from radar.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$1,000	A tree was knocked down onto the roadway on R 21. Time was estimated from radar.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$1,000	A tree was reported down at 2409 South Broad Street in Scottsboro. Time was estimated from radar.
December 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$1,000	A tree was reported down at 60 Rose Drive.
December 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$1,000	A tree was reported down at 809 Byron road.
December 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$1,000	A tree was reported down at 603 South Street.
December 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsboro	$1,000	A tree down on a house near Howard street in Scottsboro.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Townsend Farmhouse	7.9 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000365 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson County	All 12 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.