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Barney, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Cordova census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35550. It stands on Cunningham Creek. The Survey maps it on the Goodsprings quadrangle.

Barney within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

327 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 327 fires within 5 miles of Barney between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,420 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 161 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/incendiarism161
Debris and open burning107
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Recreation and ceremony12
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1768 NEW PARRISH HWY, AL
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism21 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190904-5
30 September 2008Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission68 SCOBEY LANE-DORA, AL
30 September 2006Arson/incendiarism14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Barney: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cordova MineClayProducer
Cordova PitClayProducer
Drummond Coal Co., PitClayProducer
Shale PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Walker County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barney in 1 storm report in 2019: 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
April 2019HailBarney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walker 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
Dovertown1.5 miles23
Red Star2.0 miles24
Samoset2.2 miles23
Ruby (historical)2.4 miles23
Benoit2.6 miles19
Doliska3.1 miles24
Cordova3.3 miles19
Dora3.7 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 113506. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.