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Arcola, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Newbern census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36742. It stands on Yellow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Demopolis quadrangle. It stands 123 feet above sea level.

Arcola within Hale County

On record in Arcola

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

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Arcola between 1994 and 2020, burning about 231 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
28 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140924-004
21 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1994Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 June 1996Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20200630-1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale 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 Arcola: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Tate QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz

Every working recorded in Hale County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arcola in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 3 tornado. 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
April 2011Tornado (EF2)Arcola$2,980,000The second segment of this tornado crossed into Hale County, just north of Creehill Creek. This tornado began in Greene County 2.2 miles east of Forkland. The tornado moved northeast into Hale County where it snapped and uprooted hundreds of trees. As the tornado crossed State Highway 14, it strengthened to an EF-2 rating, with maximum winds of 130 mph. Three mobile homes were severely damaged just north of Greensboro. The tornado lifted north of State Highway 25, 2.4 miles west of the Bibb County line.
April 2010Tornado (EF1)Arcola$10,000After touching down in Marengo County, and moving across a portion of Greene County, the Demopolis Tornado crossed the Black Warrior River for a second time and moved into Hale County. Within Hale County, the tornado stayed over primarily wooded terrain, and caused sporadic tree damage.
January 2023Tornado (EF2)Arcola-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southern Hale County and determined that it was consistent with an EF2 tornado, with maximum winds near 115 mph. The tornado touched down in a remote area of Hale County, near Clements Bend on the Black Warrior River. The tornado tracked northeast and across County Road 35, where numerous trees were uprooted on a farm near the State Cattle Ranch. From there, it continued to snap and uproot numerous trees in a largely rural area, before causing considerable damage to the roof of a house along Highway 69. The tornado intensified to EF2 strength as it approached the southern part of the city of Greensboro. Along Highway 25, it snapped and uprooted numerous trees, rolled and destroyed a single-wide manufactured home, and caused lighter damage to several other structures. The remaining damage along the path was mostly to timber, including Highway 61 just southeast of Greensboro, and County Road 14 just east of the city. The tornado weakened as it crossed into Perry County near Griffin Cemetery Road.

Every storm recorded in Hale 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
Lock Five2.4 miles12
Casemore4.7 miles12
Oak Grove4.8 miles12
Gallion5.0 miles11
Prairieville5.0 miles12
Gilmore Quarters5.2 miles11
Port Royal5.9 miles10
Cedarville6.5 miles12

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 ArcolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4787435The 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 155998. 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.