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Agricola, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Dadeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36853. The Survey maps it on the Camp Hill quadrangle.

Agricola within Tallapoosa 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.

Fires near this place

107 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Agricola between 1994 and 2020, burning about 908 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 34 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 burning39
Arson/incendiarism34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Smoking1

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 2016Debris and open burning60 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160930-2
29 September 2010Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190917-26
17 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tallapoosa County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Agricola in 1 storm report in 2020: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2020Thunderstorm WindAgricola-Several trees uprooted south and southwest of the city of Dadeville, near County Road 42 and County Road 34.

Every storm recorded in Tallapoosa 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
Pine Grove1.8 miles11
Mary2.8 miles11
Blue Creek3.4 miles11
Still Waters4.0 miles11
Ponders4.4 miles11
Pinnell4.5 miles11
Dadeville4.5 miles12
Sardis4.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 155980. 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.