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Battleground, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Vinemont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35179. It stands on Kid Branch. The Survey maps it on the Falkville quadrangle. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.

Battleground within Cullman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

88 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Battleground between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,025 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 22 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 burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism22
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
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
4 September 2018Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180904-5
24 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160924-16
24 September 2010Debris and open burning100 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190922-21
22 September 2018Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180922-10
19 September 1999Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use25 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180917-1
17 September 1999Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman County

Storms near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Battleground in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBattleground$30,000Multiple trees were knocked down and chicken houses were damaged on CR 1101 near highway 157.
January 1999HailBattleground$15,000Dime to quarter size hail was reported near Battleground.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBattleground$3,000A tree and power lines were knocked down at this location on CR 1107. Time was estimated form radar data.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindBattleground$1,000A tree was knocked down and blocking the road on CR 1107.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindBattleground$500Two trees were knocked down on CR 1101.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBattleground$200A tree was knocked down.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBattleground-An unspecified number of trees were reported down in locations from north central through southeast Cullman County.
March 2021Flash FloodBattleground-Intersection of CR1114 and 1141 closed due to water over the road. Depth of water unknown at this time.
March 2018HailBattleground-Grapefruit sized hail was reported.
February 2011Tornado (EF0)Battleground-An EF-0 tornado with maximum winds of 75 mph and a path width of 20 yards tracked about one quarter mile on a farm just east of battleground. The tornado first snapped and twisted four tall hardwood trees before advancing northeast and destroying a large but unoccupied chicken barn. Metal and wood debris was shredded and twisted amongst nearby trees and damaged the adjacent home and a mobile home.
March 2010HailBattleground-One inch hail was reported in Battleground.
April 2009HailBattleground-Golf ball size hail damaged cars in the Battleground area.
April 2009HailBattleground-Golf ball size hail fell.
February 2005HailBattleground-Penny size hail reported.
May 2003HailBattleground-golf ball size hail reported
March 1998HailBattleground-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cullman 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
Centerville4.1 miles20
Corinth4.1 miles18
Clifty4.1 miles18
Dripping Springs4.3 miles11
West Point5.0 miles17
Central5.5 miles11
Longview6.9 miles20
Jones Chapel7.1 miles11

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 BattlegroundAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4873140The 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 159122. 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.