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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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 Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Bashi quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
41 since 1994Regional 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 burning | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1998 | Smoking | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190928-6 |
| 24 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190816-3 |
| 26 July 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bashi | $30,000 | Winds estimated at 70 mph damaged a house. |
| November 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Bashi | $8,000 | A 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bashi | - | High winds downed trees and power lines along Bashi Road. |
| June 2017 | Flash Flood | Bashi | - | Flash flooding resulted in the closure of numerous roads in Winn, Chilton, and Thomasville. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Bashi | - | no account filed |
| April 2021 | Hail | Bashi | - | no account filed |
| January 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Bashi | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Bashi | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glover | 2.6 miles | 8 | |
| Tallahatta Springs | 4.3 miles | 8 | |
| Opine | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Choctaw Corner | 6.2 miles | 8 | |
| Midway | 7.0 miles | 8 | |
| Morvin | 7.1 miles | 8 | |
| Campbell | 7.2 miles | 8 | |
| Thomasville | 7.8 miles | 8 |
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 Bashi | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4866811 | The 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.



