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Beamon, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ozark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36360. It stands on Little Judy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Skipperville quadrangle.

Beamon within Dale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

58 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Beamon between 1994 and 2020, burning about 211 acres in total. None 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 burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
3 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionDALE COUNTY ROAD 15, AL
18 July 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 July 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 June 1998Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20200604-3
25 June 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160625-4
23 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 June 1998Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dale County

Storms near this place

5 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beamon in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2015Flash FloodBeamon$10,000Mose Ware Road near Faust Avenue was washed out with a large sinkhole. Damage was estimated.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBeamon$2,000A tree and a power line were blown down at 3368 Skipperville Road and blocking traffic.
January 2014Thunderstorm WindBeamon$500A tree was blown down near Beamon.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBeamon-A tree was blown down near the intersection of A B Stubbs Road and Mose Ware Road.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindBeamon-A power line was blown down near County Road 15 and County Road 50.

Every storm recorded in Dale 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
Asbury2.2 miles7
Skipperville3.4 miles7
Arguta3.5 miles7
Dill3.6 miles8
Mabson3.7 miles13
Barnes5.0 miles8
Ozark5.0 miles12
Dykes Crossroad5.8 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 113625. 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.