Batesville, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It lies in ZIP code area 36053. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Batesville quadrangle.

Batesville within Barbour County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Tuskegee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

58 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Batesville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 913 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 18 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	22
Arson/incendiarism	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3

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 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2003	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	68 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	124 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	BARBOUR
21 July 2010	Natural	13 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barbour County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Batesville in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 1998	Hail	Batesville	$10,000	Golf ball size hail was reported northeast of Batesville.
March 2019	Tornado (EF2)	Batesville	-	National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in Barbour County and determined that it was consistent with an EF2 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 115 mph.\|\|A tornado touched down near Mary C Smith Road, just north of County Road 79. The initial damage was limited to trees being snapped and uprooted. The tornado tracked eastward and crossed County Road 79 and Reverend Crawford Road. Once again, there were numerous trees snapped and uprooted in these areas. The most significant damage occurred just east of Reverend Crawford Road, where all trees in a large area were completely mowed down. Additionally, a large wooden double power pole was also knocked down. At this point, the tornado turned slightly to the right, eventually lifting just east of Lee Clayton Road. Hundreds of additional trees were snapped and uprooted.
December 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Batesville	-	NWS meteorologists determined a tornado touched down just east of Comer and southwest of U. S. Highway 82. Several trees were snapped and uprooted along U. S. Highway 82. The tornado continued northeast, dissipating close to County Road 89 (Springhill Road), where only minor tree damage was noted. Special thanks to the Barbour County Emergency Management Agency for their assistance on the survey.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Batesville	-	Several trees were blown down along County Road 79, near Comer.
March 2005	Hail	Batesville	-	Penny size hail was reported near Batesville along US 82.
March 2005	Hail	Batesville	-	Quarter size hail was observed near the Hawkinsville community in northeast Barbour County.

Every storm recorded in Barbour 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fairmount (historical)	1.8 miles	8
Poplar Springs (historical)	2.8 miles	8
Comer	4.2 miles	8
Hawkinsville	4.7 miles	9
Spring Hill	5.0 miles	8
Lugo	5.9 miles	8
Mount Gilead	6.8 miles	9
Knowlton (historical)	7.2 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156034. 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.