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Alliance, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Maytown-Sylvan Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35023. It stands on Black Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gilmore quadrangle.

Alliance within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

167 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Alliance between 1994 and 2018, burning about 3,266 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 72 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/incendiarism72
Debris and open burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission1686 OLD COOK FORD ROAD, AL
9 September 2002Arson/incendiarism35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Debris and open burning5.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Natural8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alliance in 3 storm reports in 1994: 2 hail, 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
March 1994Thunderstorm WindAlliance-Trees six to eight inches in diameter were reported downed with the wind.
March 1994HailAlliance-Thunderstorm wind estimated at 60 miles an hour downed trees and powerlines in the Warrior area.
March 1994HailAlliance-Trees six to eight inches in diameter were reported downed with the wind.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Black Creek0.7 miles22
Wilderness Garden1.2 miles21
Short Creek1.3 miles22
Port Birmingham1.7 miles22
Maxine2.4 miles21
Gilmore2.4 miles21
Powhatan3.1 miles22
Toadvine3.7 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 143964. 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.