Ada, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Ramer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36069. The Survey maps it on the Sellers quadrangle. It stands 322 feet above sea level.

Ada within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Letohatchee quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Sellers quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Gerald House, Adams & Lawrence Streets, Montgomery, Montgomery County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

68 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Ada between 1994 and 2020, burning about 658 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	2
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
14 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SPRAGE JUNCTION ROAD, AL
13 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170828-2
24 August 2000	Smoking	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	BUTLER MILL RD , AL
1 August 1995	Smoking	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 2000	Natural	17 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ada in 1 storm report in 2000: 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
February 2000	Tornado (F1)	Ada	$100,000	This was the first of three tornadoes produced by the same supercell thunderstorm. The tornado moved across southern Montgomery County and produced an 11.4 mile track and was rated an F1. The tornado began about 300 PM just southwest of Ada, and tracked to the northeast. It lifted about 1 mile west of US 231, southwest of Teasleys Mill around 317 PM. The tornado crossed CR 70 several times near the Davis Crossroads community. Some of the most intense damage was a mile or two southwest of Davis Crossroads, where the Ramer Manufacturing Plant sustained considerable damage. Several homes and mobile homes sustained damage along the path of the tornado, and hundreds of trees were snapped or uprooted. At times, the tornado path was 300 yards wide. A portion of the tornado was caught on video by a local television meteorologist. The tornado was accompanied by nickel size hail. No injuries were reported. Beginning: 32 04.788/86 18.621 Ending: 32 08.741/86 07.950

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sprague	1.9 miles	11
Pine Acres	2.3 miles	11
Red Level	3.4 miles	10
Sellers	3.7 miles	11
Le Grand	4.0 miles	11
Robinson Crossroads	4.0 miles	10
Fleta	4.0 miles	11
Ramer	4.8 miles	10

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 Ada	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12887045	The 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 112911. 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.