West Marion Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The West Marion Historic District is a historic district in the city of Marion, Alabama. The historic district is bounded by West Lafayette, Washington, College, Margin streets, and Murfree Avenue.”
Wikipedia article West Marion Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Perry County · listed in 1993 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by W. Lafayette St., Washington St., Murfree Ave., College St. and Margin St., Marion, 36756
When was it listed? April 1993
Category. district
Census division. Marion
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 92001844 - 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

360 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 360 fires within 5 miles of West Marion Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 848 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 20 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	123
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	88
Equipment and vehicle use	56
Smoking	21
Arson/incendiarism	20
Recreation and ceremony	17
Natural	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Other causes	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4

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
9 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200908-1
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	13 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2006	Natural	129 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Smoking	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this property

37 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marion, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 2 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
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$150,000	no account filed
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$100,000	Thousands of trees were blown down across Perry County.
March 1996	Tornado (F1)	Marion	$95,000	no account filed
April 2009	Tornado (EF1)	Marion	$30,000	The tornado touched down in a wooded ravine, between Nichols Lane and CR-7. It then traveled east-northeast for just over a mile, and lifted near the intersection of Coles Truck Stop Road and AL-5. Along the path, approximately 100 hardwood trees were snapped, and near the end of the path, several hardwoods were uprooted. A home sustained minor damage to shingles and siding. The occupant of the home took refuge in a closet, and was unharmed, after her brother called to inform her of the tornado warning.
May 2003	Hail	Marion	$25,000	A swath of large hail occurred from west central Perry County near Scotts Station to near the Vaiden Airport. The hail may have been much larger in surrounding rural areas. A few trees were also blown down and one outbuilding was destroyed.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$10,000	Numerous trees and several power lines were blown down on the western side of the city of Marion.
January 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$10,000	A deteriorating car repair garage was destroyed due to wind getting into the old building and blowing it out.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$10,000	A roof of a downtown building was damaged, blowing debris over the area. Several large trees were also uprooted as well.
May 1998	Hail	Marion	$10,000	Golf ball size hail was reported in Radford.
May 1998	Hail	Marion	$10,000	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$10,000	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Marion	$8,000	A swath of hail fell across central Perry County associated with supercell 3. Hail was reported from penny size to ping pong ball size. A few locations observed minor accumulations of the hail. The hail may have been larger in the rural areas and was therefore not observed.
November 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$6,000	Thunderstorm wind snapped trees north of Marion. There were also reports of structural damage north of Marion.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$5,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down on the eastern side of Marion.
February 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$3,000	Several trees were blown down near the intersection of of SR 5 and CR 38.
March 2000	Hail	Marion	$3,000	One inch diameter size hail fell in Marion.
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$2,000	Several trees were blown down northeast of Marion.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$2,000	Several trees were blown down on CR-7, north of Marion.
April 2005	Hail	Marion	$2,000	Quarter to golf ball size hail was observed in and around the city of Marion.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$1,000	A tree was blown down and it blocked a road in Marion County.
April 2005	Hail	Marion	$1,000	Quarter size hail briefly fell near the Coleman community.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Multiple trees were downed with power outages around Marion and Sprott.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Multiple trees were blown down around Marion.
December 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	A few trees were downed around the Perry County.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Numerous trees uprooted in and around the city of Marion.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Several trees uprooted in Marion.
April 2022	Hail	Marion	-	Quarter size hail reported a few miles north of Marion.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	A few homes sustained minor roof damage in Marion.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Two homes along Oakcrest Drive sustained minor roof damage due to fallen trees.
March 2005	Hail	Marion	-	Penny size hail was reported near the Perry Municipal Airport along CR 45.
February 2001	Hail	Marion	-	Quarter size hail was reported near Marion.
December 2000	Hail	Marion	-	Dime size hail was observed in the city of Marion.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Several trees were down and at least one power line in the city of Marion according to the police department there.
May 2013	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
March 2013	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
February 2007	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
President's House, Marion Institute	0.1 miles	1979
Chapel and Lovelace Hall, Marion Military Institute	0.2 miles	1978
Siloam Baptist Church	0.3 miles	1982
First Congregational Church of Marion	0.4 miles	1982
Marion Female Seminary	0.4 miles	1973
Phillips Memorial Auditorium	0.4 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001844 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Perry County	All 22 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.