Built in 1931 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
From the record
“The United States Post Office in Attalla, Alabama, United States, was built in 1931. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Attalla, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 15 National Register listings published here for Etowah County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1931, Federal architecture.
National Register reference number.83002968- 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
124 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 124 fires within 5 miles of U.S. Post Office
between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,189 acres in total. None started naturally. 72 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
72
Debris and open burning
39
Recreation and ceremony
5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
19 workings within 5 miles of U.S. Post Office: 7 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 unknowns.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Attalla, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain.
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.
Numerous trees were blown down in a swath from Attalla to the north side of Gadsden. Some trees were blown down and blocked a portion of Interstate 59, north of exit 183, and both lanes of the highway had to be closed for a short time to clear them.
A large landslide, consisting of mud and rock, slid off Sand Mountain and blocked almost all four lanes of US 431 just north of Attalla. Newspaper reports indicated the Sand Mountain Experimental Station received up to 6 inches of rainfall in the previous five days, 3 to 4 inches during the past 24 hours. No injuries were reported.
Trees and power lines were blown down at several locations in the city of Attalla, including the intersection of US-278 and US-431, Gallant Road, California Street and South 11th Street.
Dozens of trees were reported down in the downtown area of Attalla. In addition to the trees, several businesses and homes suffered damage; including significant wall and roof damage to several buildings.
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 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.
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.
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