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Aberfoil, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Inverness census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36089. The Survey maps it on the Aberfoil quadrangle. It stands 564 feet above sea level.

Aberfoil within Bullock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

161 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Aberfoil between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,820 acres in total. None started naturally. 40 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 burning57
Arson/incendiarism40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4

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
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-8
23 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190923-16
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Smoking2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullock County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aberfoil in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindAberfoil-Several trees uprooted along Highway 239.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAberfoil-Several trees uprooted in the town of Aberfoil.
August 2013Flash FloodAberfoil-Widespread flooding occurred across portions of southwestern Bullock County as more than four inches of rain fell in a couple hours. Many roads, including County Road 31, County Road 22, and Highway 29, became impassable due to water flowing over the roadway.

Every storm recorded in Bullock County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tito2.9 miles8
Stavo3.1 miles8
Scottland3.2 miles8
Ox Level4.2 miles8
Sardis4.2 miles8
Bread Tray Hill4.5 miles8
Inverness5.0 miles8
Union Springs5.3 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AberfoilAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19460074The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 112891. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.