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Arguta, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ozark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36360. It stands on Dry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Skipperville quadrangle. It stands 453 feet above sea level.

Arguta within Dale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

59 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Arguta between 1994 and 2020, burning about 366 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
4 September 1997Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionDALE COUNTY ROAD 15, AL
23 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 June 1998Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 June 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200507-3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dale County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arguta in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2008Tornado (EF1)Arguta$30,000A tornado touched down near the intersection of County Roads 19 and 15, about three miles northwest of Skipperville. Several trees were uprooted and a barn was heavily damaged.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindArguta$3,000Trees were blown down on County Road 15 near Skipperville. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
February 2026Thunderstorm WindArguta-A tree was blown down across the road near County road 15 and County Road 113.
February 2021Thunderstorm WindArguta-A tree was blown down across the road near 607 County Road 60.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindArguta-A tree was blown down onto East County Road 19 near the intersection with County Road 70.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindArguta-A tree was blown down across County Road 19.

Every storm recorded in Dale 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
Skipperville2.8 miles7
Dykes Crossroad2.8 miles7
Phillips Crossroads3.3 miles7
Beamon3.5 miles7
Roberts Crossroads4.1 miles7
Barnes4.6 miles8
Asbury4.8 miles7
Dill5.1 miles8

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 ArgutaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058381The 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 156001. 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.