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Tannehill Furnace

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Tannehill Ironworks is the central feature of Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park near the unincorporated town of McCalla in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Tannehill Furnace, it was a major supplier of iron for Confederate ordnance.”
Wikipedia article Tannehill Ironworks, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Tuscaloosa County · listed in 1972 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. 3 mi. E of U.S. 11, Abernant, 35111
When was it listed? July 1972
Category. site
Census division. Abernant
National Register reference number. 72000182 - 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

164 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Tannehill Furnace between 1994 and 2020, burning about 852 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 51 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	60
Arson/incendiarism	51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Recreation and ceremony	13
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	1
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
9 September 2002	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20130903-001
29 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160929-10
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	7501 PINE VIEW ROAD-MCCALLA, AL
24 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Tannehill Furnace: 16 occurrences, 13 past producers, 8 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Iron, Manganese. 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
Cobern No. 1 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
R C Coleman Prospect	Iron, Manganese	Occurrence
Woodstock Brown Iron Ore Deposit	Manganese, Iron	Past Producer	1830, 1961
Bibb County	Iron	Unknown
Edwards	Iron	Unknown
Giles	Iron	Unknown
Greenpond	Iron	Unknown
Martaban Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Red Ridge Area, Birmingham Distri	Iron	Past Producer
Rice Brothers Prospect	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Storms near this property

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Abernant, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
November 2002	Tornado (F2)	Abernant	3 hurt, $300,000	no account filed
June 2002	Lightning	Abernant	$40,000	A probable lightning strike burst a home into flames. The fire completely destroyed the home near Abernant. No injuries were reported.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Abernant	$5,000	Several trees were knocked down on Johns Road and Abernant Ball Park Road.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Abernant	$3,000	Trees and power lines were blown down on Joy Drive, just southeast of Abernant.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Abernant	$2,000	A tree fell onto a power line, south of Abernant.
November 2001	Tornado (F0)	Abernant	$1,000	A supercell thunderstorm produced a very brief F0 tornado near mile marker 100 on Interstate 59. The tornado was spotted by numerous individuals and storm spotters a quarter to half mile east of Exit 100 on Interstate 59. The tornado only briefly touched down at 12:37 pm in a rural area with little or no damage. Beg: 33 16.848/87 05.529 End: 33 16.967/87 05.319
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Abernant	-	Several trees uprooted and power lines downed on Mountain View Lane.
September 2014	Flash Flood	Abernant	-	Highway 216 is closed at the intersection of Abernant Loop due to flooding.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Abernant	-	Several trees uprooted on Rockhouse Road.
May 2003	Hail	Abernant	-	Nickel size hail was observed in Abernant.
November 1994	Hail	Abernant	-	Half-inch hail was reported on the southside of Tuscaloosa near intersection of 82 and 20. A transformer was reportedly blown off a power pole at the airport. Quarter to half-inch hail was reported in Abernant.
March 2013	Hail	Abernant	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Abernant	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuscaloosa 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 72000182 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tuscaloosa County	All 47 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.