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U.S. Post Office

Built in 1931. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Post Office is a former post office building located at 107 W. The post office was built in 1931; while files at the post office claim it was a Works Progress Administration building, the organization did not exist in 1931.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Albertville, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Marshall County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1931.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 107 W. Main St., Albertville, 35950
When was it listed? June 1983
Category. building
Census division. Albertville-Boaz
When was it built? 1931
National Register reference number. 83002980 - 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

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of U.S. Post Office between 1994 and 2016, burning about 251 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	1
Other causes	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
5 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2015	Other causes	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20150805-001
23 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	3106 CR 205, AL
19 August 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 July 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 June 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	514 SWITCH LANE RD, AL

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this property

60 of 75 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albertville, the town this property stands in, in 75 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 30 hail, 28 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 5 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 2 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	Heavy Rain	Albertville	1 killed, 1 hurt	Heavy rainfall earlier in the day caused many local creeks and streams to rise significantly. According to newspaper reports, a 3 year old boy drowned and an 8 year old boy sustained minor injuries while canoeing on a rain swollen creek after heavy rains had ended. The incident occurred on Drum Creek at US 431 in Albertvile.
August 2013	Lightning	Albertville	1 hurt	Scattered thunderstorms resulted in a lightning strike that caused a minor injury to person on Weaver road, in Albertville, Alabama.
May 2025	Lightning	Albertville	$100,000	Lightning struck a home on Honeysuckle Lane in the Albertville area. Severe damage to the roof and interior of the home resulted from the lightning strike. The home was damaged enough for the residents of that home to be temporarily displaced.
September 2006	Tornado (F1)	Albertville	$90,000	The tornado initially touched down in the southwest side of Albertville between Whitesville Road and South Broad Street. At this stage, the tornado was 40 yards wide producing F0 intensity winds up to 60 mph for along a one quarter mile path. Then the tornado increased to F1 intensity with winds up to 100 mph along a path width of 500 yards. Several trees were snapped and uprooted in its path. Several homes sustained minor roof, awning, and gutter damage. The tornado continued its path north-northeast into western Albertville before dissipating.
March 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	$25,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged three structures on Highway 431 and Rose Road.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	$25,000	Thunderstorm wind blew down trees and power lines and damaged several buildings in and around Albertville. A mobile home used as a retail fireworks shop was flipped over. Heaviest concentration of damage appeared to be on the north side of Albertville.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	$20,000	A seventy five mph gust was estimated. Several trees were blown down in the area. One house was reported damaged.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	$20,000	Several trees were blown down in this area. Damage also occurred to a house in the area.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	$20,000	Unspecified damage was reported near the intersection of 431 and highway 75 and along highway 75 to the intersection of Huntsville Road. Also, the KMART at 431 and highway 75 sustained roof damage.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	$20,000	A microburst tore a large portion of a roof off of a county government building.
April 1998	Hail	Albertville	$20,000	Up to golf ball size hail was reported northeast of Albertville by amateur radio storm spotters.
August 2013	Lightning	Albertville	$15,000	An isolated thunderstorm produced a lightning strike that produced minor fire damage to a residence in Albertville, Alabama.
September 2011	Flash Flood	Albertville	$15,000	Heavy rain associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee produced flash flooding with several inches of water over several area roads in Albertville and Boaz. Several trees were downed in Boaz due to the saturated ground associated with the heavy rainfall.
June 1997	Flash Flood	Albertville	$12,000	Several inches of rain fell in a short period of time and caused an earthen dam to partially break, several roads to flood and a mobile home to almost wash away. There was a foot of water in many locations.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	$10,000	There were several trees down and several chicken houses were damaged.
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	$10,000	no account filed
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	$9,000	Wind knocked down several trees onto power lines, causing power outages for up to three hours in many locations across the city.
January 1997	Hail	Albertville	$7,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	$5,000	Trees and power lines were down in Albertville.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	$5,000	Trees and power lines were down in the Asbury community.
April 1997	Hail	Albertville	$3,000	Three-quarter inch hail was reported in Hustleville, in the eastern part of the county, by a ham spotter.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	$2,000	Metal roofing was blown onto power lines on Carroll Street. A trampoline was also toppled to near the street from an adjacent residence. Time estimated by radar.
April 2006	Lightning	Albertville	$2,000	Lightning struck a home, producing minor damage as a fire was started by the lightning strike.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	$2,000	Several trees were reported down in Albertville. Additional scattered reports were received of tree limbs down and several short power outages. A funnel cloud was reported over Guntersville Lake.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	$1,000	A tree was downed by thunderstorm winds.
April 2011	Lightning	Albertville	$1,000	Lightning struck a power pole in Albertville.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	$500	A tree was knocked down on the road at Martling Road at Wright Road. Time estimated by radar.
April 2025	Hail	Albertville	-	One and one quarter of an inch in diameter hail was reported off of Section Line Road at this location. Time was estimated by radar.
April 2025	Hail	Albertville	-	Two and one quarter inch in diameter hail was reported at this location via MPING observation.
April 2025	Hail	Albertville	-	One and one quarter of an inch in diameter hail was reported at this location west of S Edmonson Street.
May 2025	Hail	Albertville	-	Golf ball size hail was reported in the Albertville community. Time was estimated from radar.
May 2024	Flash Flood	Albertville	-	Marshall County EMA reported water over roadways with several cars stranded in Albertville.
May 2024	Flash Flood	Albertville	-	Marshall County EMA reported barricaded toads in Albertville due to culverts washed out. Depth of water unknown.
June 2019	Hail	Albertville	-	The public reported quarter sized hail in Albertville.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Albertville	-	An SUV was swept away on Glover Street at Avenue B after attempting to drive through flood waters. A mother and two children were rescued by the fire department.
June 2017	Flood	Albertville	-	Flooding on Kilpatrick Road in Albertville. Depth of water unknown. Video/report relayed via Social Media.
June 2017	Flood	Albertville	-	Albertville Police Dept reports that numerous streets have minor flooding. Water depth is 3 inches or less and more of a nuisance than anything else. Report relayed via Social Media.
June 2017	Flood	Albertville	-	Albertville Police Dept is now barracading George Wallace Drive. Water depth is 3 to 4 inches and due to poor drainage. Nuisance flooding reported elsewhere in Albertville. Report relayed via Social Media.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down.
January 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	-	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees, bent a local restaurant sign over to a 30 degree angle and a roof was partially blown off of an apartment building.
March 2015	Hail	Albertville	-	Nickel sized hail was reported in the Laddywood community in Marshall county.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	-	Two trees were downed due to thunderstorm winds.
October 2014	Hail	Albertville	-	Quarter sized hail was reported.
March 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	-	A severe thunderstorm produced extensive wind damage in the city of Albertville. A brick building sustained significant roof damage at the intersection of U.S. Highway 431 and Mathis Mill Road. A large section of the roof was lifted and peeled off. Wooden power poles were snapped in this location and a gas station sign was destroyed. Debris was strewn well into Highway 431. On the north side of the road at the intersection of Highland Avenue, a barbeque restaurant sustained major damage. An additional building had roof damage and a sign was heavily damaged. The damage in this area was consistent with winds of 90 to 100 mph. A newspaper reported that up to 1500 customers lost power during the storm.
March 2011	Hail	Albertville	-	Three quarter inch diameter hail was reported.
August 2010	Flash Flood	Albertville	-	Numerous roads were covered with water in the city of Albertville. A few roads were covered in water so deep that barricades had to be put in place.
April 2009	Hail	Albertville	-	Nickel size hail was reported near downtown Albertville.
April 2009	Hail	Albertville	-	Nickel size hail was reported on Meadowbrook Drive.
March 2008	Hail	Albertville	-	Nickel sized hail was reported in Albertville.
February 2008	Flash Flood	Albertville	-	Flash flooding was reported on several streets in Albertville including Highway 205 and Rose Road.
May 2007	Hail	Albertville	-	Penny size hail was reported.
April 2006	Hail	Albertville	-	Quarter size hail was reported and covering the ground.
April 2006	Hail	Albertville	-	Nickel size hail was reported.
April 2006	Hail	Albertville	-	Quarter size hail was reported.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	-	Light roof shingle damage occurred due to strong winds.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	-	Large tree limbs were broken off due to thunderstorm winds.
February 2005	Hail	Albertville	-	Nickel size hail reported.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	-	A tree was blown down.
December 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Albertville	-	A few trees and power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Albertville Depot	0.4 miles	1975
Snead Junior College Historic District	5.3 miles	1999
Thomas A. Snellgrove Homestead	5.4 miles	1996
Julia Street Memorial United Methodist Church	5.5 miles	1999
Edward Fenns Whitman House	5.5 miles	1997
Saratoga Victory Mill	7.4 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83002980 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marshall County	All 15 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.
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.