Emory School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Emory School (1915-1960), also known as the Tunstall School, is a historic one teacher Rosenwald School building, and former Black school, located near Greensboro, Alabama in rural Hale County, Alabama, US. The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 20, 1998, as a part of The Rosenwald School Building Fund and Associated Buildings Multiple Property Submission.”
Wikipedia article Emory School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Hale County · listed in 1998 · 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. Co. Rd. 16, approx. 1 mi. W of jct. AL 69 and Co. Rd. 16, Cedarville, 36744
When was it listed? February 1998
Category. building
Also known as. The Rosenwald School Building Fund and Associated Buildings MPS
Census division. Greensboro South
National Register reference number. 98000109 - 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

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Emory School between 1997 and 2015, burning about 117 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
21 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20130827-001
2 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2006	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO RD 73 & 35, AL
24 May 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 May 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20150519-001

Every fire recorded in Hale County

Storms near this property

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedarville, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2014: 4 hail, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2003	Hail	Cedarville	$35,000	Supercell 3 produced a weak tornado at its initiation then strengthened as it entered south central Hale County. A swath of penny to golf ball size hail was produced along the path from near Cedarville to near Newburn. The hail may have been larger but fell over mostly rural farming country. A few automobiles and homes were damaged. Several trees were also blown down near Newburn.
November 2001	Tornado (F0)	Cedarville	$25,000	A supercell tornado produced an F0 tornado near Cedarville. The tornado began at 12:34 pm about 1 mile south of Cedarville on SR 69. The tornado snapped and uprooted several trees along its path. One farm received damage to a few structures including one barn that had its roof torn off. Two automobiles were damaged by flying debris. The tornado ended at 12:36 pm near CR 9 just north of CR 16. The tornado path was 2.1 miles long and 75 yards wide at its widest point. The tornado remained over rural farmland for most of its path. Beg: 32 35.959/87 41.096 End: 32 37.530/87 38.748
April 2003	Tornado (F0)	Cedarville	$3,000	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Cedarville	$2,000	Golf ball size hail was observed in Cedarville.
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Cedarville	-	Several trees uprooted along County Road 16.
May 2003	Hail	Cedarville	-	Penny size hail was reported near Cedarville.
March 2013	Hail	Cedarville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hale 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
Millwood	4.5 miles	1989
Oak Grove School	4.7 miles	1998
Alfred Hatch Place at Arcola	5.2 miles	1988
Bermuda Hill	5.7 miles	1994
Hawthorne	6.8 miles	1994
Borden Oaks	6.9 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000109 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hale County	All 21 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.