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Photograph of New Market Presbyterian Church
Photograph by Chris Pruitt, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

New Market Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“New Market Presbyterian Church is a historic building located in New Market, Alabama. The Late Gothic Revival-style church was built in 1888, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”

Wikipedia article New Market Presbyterian Church (New Market, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 97 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

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. 1723 New Market Rd., New Market, 35761
  • When was it listed? August 1988
  • Category. building
  • Census division. New Market
  • National Register reference number. 88001348 - 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

30 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of New Market Presbyterian Church between 1997 and 2014, burning about 77 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Smoking10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission4569 WINCHESTER RD, AL
17 August 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionMAZEVILLE RD, AL
4 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission749 ARNOLD ROAD, AL
3 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission431 WINCHESTER ROAD, AL

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Market, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 16 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1998Tornado (F1)New Market$110,000Trees were down in the New Market area, this damaged several homes in the area. One home had major damage and four homes had minor roof damage.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindNew Market$30,000One barn was totally destroyed and one barn partially destroyed near New Market. Several large trees and power lines were also blown down. Trees were also blown down in Hazel Green.
March 1996HailNew Market$12,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindNew Market$10,000Several trees were blown down along Winchester road.
January 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Market$10,000A home in New Market was damaged when a large tree was blown over onto it.
May 1998HailNew Market$10,000Golf ball size hail was reported in New Market.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindNew Market$3,000Several trees were snapped at a BBQ restaurant.
April 2002HailNew Market$3,000Golf ball size hail fell in New Market.
April 2002HailNew Market$3,000Quarter size to one and one half inch diameter size hail was observed in and around the city of New Market.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindNew Market$3,000A few large trees and power lines were blown down near New Market.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Market$1,000Social media photo indicated a tree was knocked down and a trampoline flipped over onto a fence at a residence in New Market.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Market$1,000Large hardwood tree branches were broken.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindNew Market$1,000Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree onto a road in New Market. Time estimated.
June 2011HailNew Market-Nickel size hail was reported.
March 2009HailNew Market-Quarter sized hail was reported to the media by the public. Photo verification of the hail is noted.
April 2008HailNew Market-A severe thunderstorm produced nickel size hail just west of New Market near New Market Road.
August 2008HailNew Market-Nickel size hail fell in the New Market area.
April 2006HailNew Market-Quarter size hail was reported.
May 2006HailNew Market-Nickel sized hail reported.
February 2005HailNew Market-Quarter size hail reported.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNew Market-A tree was blown down at a residence along Hurricane Road.
March 2003HailNew Market-penny size hail reported.
March 2003HailNew Market-Nickel size hail reported.
May 2003HailNew Market-golf ball hail reported
May 2003Thunderstorm WindNew Market-a few trees down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindNew Market-a few trees and power lines down.
February 2000HailNew Market-Dime size hail fell in Deposit.
March 1998HailNew Market-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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

4 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 PropertyDistance Listed
New Market Historic District0.2 miles2004
New Market United Methodist Church0.3 miles1990
Whitman-Cobb House0.5 miles1982
McCrary House5.6 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88001348 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison CountyAll 97 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.