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Allsboro, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Cherokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35616. It lies near McCluskey Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Bishop quadrangle. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Allsboro within Colbert County

On record in Allsboro

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

148 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Allsboro between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,338 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 79 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/incendiarism79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
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
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMississippi Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1993Fireworks1.0 acresNatchez Trace ParkwayROCKET
30 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMississippi Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNatchez Trace ParkwayMP 318
22 September 2004Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNatchez Trace ParkwayALLSBORO
22 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colbert County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Allsboro: 4 producers, 4 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone. 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
Asphaltic RockLimestone, General, StoneOccurrenceSedimentary
Mann PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
MargerumAluminum, Water, FreeUnknownSurface
Margerum Bauxite DistrictAluminum, KaolinProspect1921
Tishomingo Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer1970
A ProspectAluminumProspect
Allsboro Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
B ProspectAluminumProspect
C ProspectAluminumProspect
Mississippi Stone ProductsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Colbert County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allsboro in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
September 2012LightningAllsboro$40,000Lightning struck a tree and moved over to a well house, which caused a surge of power into a home, igniting a fire. The lightning strike occurred about five miles south of highway 72 near the Alabama and Mississippi state line near Allsboro.
November 1996Thunderstorm WindAllsboro$5,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAllsboro$2,000A tree was blown down at the intersection of Allsboro road and Old natchez Trace road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindAllsboro$500Two trees were knocked down in Allsboro. Time estimated by radar.
February 2021Thunderstorm WindAllsboro$200A tree was knocked down on Old Natchez Trace Road.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindAllsboro$200A tree was knocked down at Highway 72 and Allsboro Road.
March 2015HailAllsboro-Quarter sized hail was reported.
March 2012HailAllsboro-Hail up to quarter-sized was reported.
June 2004Flash FloodAllsboro-Flash flooding was occurring with several inches of water over area roads.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindAllsboro-a few trees blown down.

Every storm recorded in Colbert 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
Malone2.0 miles13
Bishop2.0 miles13
Maud3.5 miles13
Burnstown3.6 miles13
Good Springs (historical)4.1 miles13
Mynot4.6 miles13
Margerum5.5 miles19
Mount Hester5.7 miles13

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 AllsboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4733275The 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 113039. 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.