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Augustin, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Sprott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36701. It stands on Tate Branch. The Survey maps it on the Summerfield quadrangle.

Augustin within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

78 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Augustin between 1994 and 2019, burning about 518 acres in total. 3 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 burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking4
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190908-5
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Natural45 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Natural75 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140923-002
22 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140922-001
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-20

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Augustin in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 flash flood. 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 2018Flash FloodAugustin-Portions of County Road 14 flooded in extreme southeast Perry county.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Oak Grove (historical)2.1 miles13
Suttle4.3 miles12
Radford7.5 miles12
Perryville7.6 miles13
Nave8.6 miles9
Vilula9.1 miles9
Hamburg9.6 miles9
Norman10.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 159095. 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.