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Alexis, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Spring Garden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35960. It lies near Godfreys Island. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Bluff quadrangle. It stands 604 feet above sea level.

Alexis within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

181 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Alexis between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,059 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 117 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
Arson/incendiarism117
Debris and open burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 September 2007Debris and open burning16 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-10
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140924-001
23 September 2006Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined44 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200922-5
21 September 2019Debris and open burning8.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020FLOYD006
21 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Alexis: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alexis in 1 storm report in 2011: 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
February 2011Thunderstorm WindAlexis$1,000A metal flagpole was snapped in half.

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Oceola1.6 miles17
Howells Crossroads1.8 miles19
Waterhouse2.2 miles17
Alpine Shores2.7 miles19
Meadows Estates3.0 miles19
Kirks Grove3.0 miles17
Whorton3.3 miles19
Newberry Crossroads3.4 miles19

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 AlexisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19871926The 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 112987. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.