Moundville

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Moundville Archaeological Site, also known as the Moundville Archaeological Park, is a Mississippian culture archaeological site on the Black Warrior River in Hale County, near the modern city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Extensive archaeological investigation has shown that the site was the political and ceremonial center of a regionally organized Mississippian culture chiefdom polity known as the Province of Pafalaya between the 11th and 16th centuries.”
Wikipedia article Moundville Archaeological Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Hale County · listed in 1966 · category: Site · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. 1 mi. (1.6 km) W of Moundville on SR 21, Moundville, 35474
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. site
National Register reference number. 66000149 - 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

126 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Moundville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 430 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 24 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	51
Arson/incendiarism	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	1
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	CR 46, AL
28 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	1679 CO RD 64, AL
25 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160925-4
20 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170920-1
2 September 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.3 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	COUNTY ROAD 72, AL
19 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Hale County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Moundville: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Cypress Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Quartz

Every working recorded in Hale County

Storms near this property

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moundville, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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
March 2011	Flash Flood	Moundville	$75,000	As a result of heavy rainfall, 8 homes in the Moundville area were flooded. Three of these homes were on Lock 9 Road and 5 of these homes were in the Old Lock 5 area.
April 2003	Hail	Moundville	$50,000	The storm then headed into Hale County where it continued producing large hail and damaging winds from near the Black Warrior River to near Payne Lake. In fact, the hail was larger ranging from 3/4 of an inch up to an 1.50 inches. Several trees were also blown down along the path in Hale County. Funnel clouds were reported as the storm moved across the county. The hail may have been larger because a few vehicles were damaged by the large hail.
September 2009	Flash Flood	Moundville	$25,000	Numerous roads in the city of Moundville had to be closed due to flooding, and water entered and damaged several homes in the area.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Moundville	$10,000	Several trees were blown down on CR-67, east of Moundville, including 3 that fell onto a house.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Moundville	$8,000	Trees and power lines were knocked down in and around Moundville and Akron.
November 2001	Tornado (F0)	Moundville	$7,000	A tornado briefly touched down just northeast of Moundville along SR 69. The tornado knocked a few trees down and caused minor damage to a nursery and a mobile home. Beg: 33 00.047/87 37.135 End: 33 00.133/87 37.016
April 2005	Hail	Moundville	$6,000	Half dollar to golf ball size hail was reported in and around Moundville.
April 2001	Hail	Moundville	$5,000	Golf ball size hail was reported 12 miles east of Moundville.
April 2002	Hail	Moundville	$3,000	Golf ball size hail fell across extreme northeast Hale County, east of Moundville.
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Moundville	$2,000	A large shed was blown over and destroyed at the Oak Hill Cemetary. Many large tree limbs were also snapped off.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Moundville	$2,000	Trees were reported down at Moundville State Park on the north side of Moundville in Tuscaloosa County and on the west side of Moundville in Hale County.
February 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Moundville	-	Trees were downed across various locations of northern Hale County, including in Moundville. Several homes in Moundville sustained shingle loss. Several trees were uprooted along Ann St and to the west a metal building was blown down behind Restore Physical Therapy near Highway 69. Along Paige Blvd, small trees and limbs were downed and a couple signs were blown over. On County Line Rd, a metal carport was mangled and an adjacent single-wide manufactured home received skirting and siding damage.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Moundville	-	Several trees and power lines were downed around Moundville, including along County Road 50. Other trees were downed along Highway 69 near Havana and Harper Hill.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Moundville	-	Several tree limbs were snapped and power lines were downed in Moundville.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Moundville	-	Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in the town of Moundville.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Moundville	-	Several trees uprooted around the town of Moundville.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Moundville	-	Several trees and powerlines were downed, some blocking roadways.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Moundville	-	Multiple trees were reported down across the town of Moundville.
March 2005	Hail	Moundville	-	Penny size hail was reported in far northeastern Hale County in the Talladega National Forest Area.The hail may have been larger but fell mainly in rural areas.
March 2005	Hail	Moundville	-	Penny size hail was reported across extreme northern Hale County along the Tuscaloosa County line. The hail may have been larger but fell mainly in rural locations.
April 2004	Hail	Moundville	-	Quarter size hail was reported between Havana and Moundville.
May 2001	Hail	Moundville	-	Dime size hail was observed in Moundville.
March 2000	Hail	Moundville	-	Penny size hail was observed in the Moundville area.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Moundville	-	Trees and power lines were knocked down in the northeast part of the county near the Talladega National Forest.
April 2006	Hail	Moundville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hale 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 66000149 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hale County	All 21 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.