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Alfalfa, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Demopolis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36742. The Survey maps it on the Demopolis quadrangle. It stands 144 feet above sea level.

Alfalfa within Marengo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Alfalfa between 1994 and 2020, burning about 299 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140924-004
18 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 July 2006Natural15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 June 1996Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Alfalfa: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Demopolis Quarry & Cement PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Tolar QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Marengo County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alfalfa in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 2 hail. 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 2025HailAlfalfa-Quarter-size hail was reported on the south side of Demopolis via social media.
June 2015HailAlfalfa-Large hail near the intersection of County Road 1 and Sparks Road.

Every storm recorded in Marengo 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
Knoxwood1.6 miles12
Spocari2.7 miles12
Baptist Hill3.6 miles12
Demopolis3.8 miles12
Rockcut4.1 miles12
Shortleaf4.8 miles12
Old Spring Hill5.0 miles10
Tombigbee (historical)8.8 miles11

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 AlfalfaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4721866The 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 155985. 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.