New Market United Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“New Market United Methodist Church is a historic church at 310 Hurricane Road in New Market, Alabama, United States. It was built in 1921 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.”
Wikipedia article New Market United Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 97 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 310 Hurricane Rd., New Market, 35761
When was it listed? June 1990
Category. building
Census division. New Market
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 90000919 - 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

32 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of New Market United Methodist Church between 1997 and 2014, burning about 79 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 burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	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 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Smoking	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	4569 WINCHESTER RD, AL
20 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	391 COUNTY LAKE RD, NEW MARKET, AL
17 August 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	MAZEVILLE RD, AL
4 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	749 ARNOLD 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.

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

5 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
New Market Historic District	0.1 miles	2004
New Market Presbyterian Church	0.3 miles	1988
Whitman-Cobb House	0.3 miles	1982
McCrary House	5.5 miles	1982
McCartney-Bone House	7.9 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000919 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison County	All 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.