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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Summerfield SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
78 since 1994Regional 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 burning | 39 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190908-5 |
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2000 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1995 | Natural | 45 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1995 | Natural | 75 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20140923-002 |
| 22 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20140922-001 |
| 20 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190920-20 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2018Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2018 | Flash Flood | Augustin | - | Portions of County Road 14 flooded in extreme southeast 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Grove (historical) | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Suttle | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Radford | 7.5 miles | 12 | |
| Perryville | 7.6 miles | 13 | |
| Nave | 8.6 miles | 9 | |
| Vilula | 9.1 miles | 9 | |
| Hamburg | 9.6 miles | 9 | |
| Norman | 10.7 miles | 9 |
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.








