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Butlers' Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Butlers' Store is a group of three historic commercial buildings in New Hope, Alabama. The Butler family began their dry goods and hardware business in the 1850s, and in 1909 built 2 two-story buildings on New Hope's main street.”

Wikipedia article Butlers' Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 97 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1992 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 5498 Main Dr., New Hope, 35760
  • When was it listed? August 1992
  • Category. building
  • Census division. New Hope
  • National Register reference number. 92001089 - 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

46 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Butlers' Store between 1994 and 2018, burning about 516 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 burning23
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160926-11
18 September 1998Debris and open burning30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2011Smoking15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 431 S, AL
14 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Butlers' Store: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Diamond QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
New Hope QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

27 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Hope, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 12 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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
August 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Hope$1,000,000A large tree was blown down on a mobile home. Power lines were also blown down.
November 2001Tornado (F2)New Hope$500,000The same storm that spawned the Union Grove Tornado moved northeast across the Tennessee River and produced another tornado in southeastern Madison County. This tornado, rated an F2 on the Fujita scale, touched down around 1:50 pm about 3.6 miles west-southwest of the city of New Hope near the base of Lemley Mountain where it downed trees and produced light damage to some homes. The tornado then strengthened as it moved northeast through a mobile home community where several mobile homes were thrown and demolished. After crossing US 431 and damaging several businesses, the tornado lifted about three-quarters of a mile northeast of the US 431/Old US 431 intersection around 1:54 pm. Despite damage to at least 21 homes, including eight that were completely demolished, there were no known injuries. In the mobile home community where the greatest damage occurred, residents stated they heard the Tornado Warning on televison and through NOAA Weather Radio and took cover in underground storm shelters. Beg: 34 31.445/86 26.951 End: 34 33.250/86 25.254
March 1998Thunderstorm WindNew Hope$382,000One home and five mobile homes were destroyed and 65 others structures sustained major or minor damage in the New Hope area.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNew Hope$20,000A tree was blown down onto a home on Cedar Point Road by thunderstorm winds.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Hope$8,000A roof was blown off a barn and several trees were knocked down in the New Hope area.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindNew Hope$6,000Trees and power lines down on Lemley Circle in New Hope.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Hope$5,000Thunderstorm winds resulted in a roof being peeled back from a mobile home along Scott Branch Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Hope$3,000Power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds across the roadway intersection of Cedar Point road and Carpenter road, about two miles east-northeast of New Hope, Alabama.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindNew Hope$2,000A tree was knocked down on a house. Time estimated from radar.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Hope$1,000A few trees were knocked down in New Hope. Time estimated by radar.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindNew Hope$500A tree was knocked down on power lines on Madison Avenue. Time estimated from radar.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindNew Hope$500A tree was knocked down near Main Drive and Johnson Avenue.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindNew Hope$500A tree was downed by thunderstorm winds at New Hope.
March 2021HailNew Hope-Golf ball sized hail was reported.
March 2021HailNew Hope-Hail of 1.5 inch in diameter was reported.
April 2015HailNew Hope-Quarter sized hail was reported.
September 2013Flash FloodNew Hope-A portion of Mayo Road was washed out due to at least 12 inches of flash flooding occurring.
April 2012HailNew Hope-Penny sized hail was reported.
June 2011HailNew Hope-Tennis ball size hail was reported.
June 2011HailNew Hope-Quarter size hail was reported.
June 2011HailNew Hope-Golf ball size hail was reported.
June 2010HailNew Hope-Quarter sized hail was reported.
October 2010HailNew Hope-Ping Pong sized hail was reported.
January 2009FloodNew Hope-Heavy rainfall across portions of southeastern Madison County produced flooding. Emergency management officials no less than 6 inches of flood water across: Mayo Road south of Johnson Road, Sam Maples Road at the intersection of Old Highway 431, Oak Grove Road, and Scott Branch Road. These roads were deemed impassable and were closed.
April 2009HailNew Hope-Golf ball size hail fell and covered the ground.
April 2006HailNew Hope-Nickel size hail was reported.
March 2005HailNew Hope-Penny size hail reported.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92001089 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.
  • 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.