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Bashi, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Thomasville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36784. It stands on Johnson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bashi quadrangle. It stands 174 feet above sea level.

Bashi within Clarke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Bashi between 1994 and 2019, burning about 301 acres in total. 2 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 1998Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190928-6
24 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2006Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190816-3
26 July 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke County

Storms near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bashi in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2016Thunderstorm WindBashi$30,000Winds estimated at 70 mph damaged a house.
November 2002Tornado (F0)Bashi$8,000A weak tornado briefly touched down just east of the community near County Road 48. A few trees were blown down or uprooted by the tornado.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBashi-High winds downed trees and power lines along Bashi Road.
June 2017Flash FloodBashi-Flash flooding resulted in the closure of numerous roads in Winn, Chilton, and Thomasville.
April 2021HailBashi-no account filed
April 2021HailBashi-no account filed
January 2008Funnel CloudBashi-no account filed
June 2002HailBashi-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clarke 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
Glover2.6 miles8
Tallahatta Springs4.3 miles8
Opine6.0 miles8
Choctaw Corner6.2 miles8
Midway7.0 miles8
Morvin7.1 miles8
Campbell7.2 miles8
Thomasville7.8 miles8

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 BashiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4866811The 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 113543. 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.