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Asbury, 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 Cotton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Skipperville quadrangle. It stands 420 feet above sea level.

Asbury 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

50 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Asbury between 1994 and 2020, burning about 184 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
14 July 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20200604-3
17 June 1998Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 May 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200507-11
7 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200507-3
6 May 2020Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200506-49
30 May 2000Debris and open burning8.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 May 2017Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20170503-2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dale County

Storms near this place

3 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Asbury in 3 storm reports between 2022 and 2024: 3 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 2024Thunderstorm WindAsbury-A tree was blown down on East County Road 36.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindAsbury-A tree was blown down on County Road 59 near County Road 54.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAsbury-A tree was blown down on Highway 54.

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
Beamon2.2 miles7
Mabson3.2 miles13
Skipperville3.2 miles7
Arguta4.8 miles7
Echo4.9 miles8
Snow Hill5.0 miles8
Bells Crossroads5.1 miles9
Barefield Crossroads5.6 miles9

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 AsburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058383The 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 113239. 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.