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Armstrong, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Davis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36083. The Survey maps it on the Union Springs quadrangle.

Armstrong within Macon County

On record in Armstrong

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.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

166 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Armstrong between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,881 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 61 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/incendiarism61
Debris and open burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony11
Smoking11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
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
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Smoking12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Arson/incendiarism24 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2000Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Debris and open burning6.3 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190923-20
18 September 2010Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism80 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macon County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Armstrong in 1 storm report in 2000: 1 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
March 2000HailArmstrong$3,000Dime to golfball size hail fell in the Armstrong area.

Every storm recorded in Macon 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
Fort Davis2.8 miles8
Roba3.4 miles9
Cotton Valley4.1 miles8
Davisville6.1 miles8
Downs6.9 miles9
Hannon7.0 miles9
Warriorstand7.4 miles8
Mount Andrew8.4 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 113217. 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.