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Belle Mina, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mooresville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35615. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tanner quadrangle. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Belle Mina within Limestone County

On record in Belle Mina

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Governor Thomas Bibb House, County Road 71, Belle Mina, Limestone County, AL
Governor Thomas Bibb House, County Road 71, Belle Mina, Limestone County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

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 Belle Mina between 1994 and 2019, burning about 417 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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
Arson/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
7 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined85 acresWheeler National Wildlife RefugeFM 97-8
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-4
20 September 2019Debris and open burning28 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-27
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWheeler National Wildlife RefugeFM 97-9
16 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burning35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belle Mina in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 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 1996Flash FloodBelle Mina$18,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBelle Mina$4,000Trees were blown down in the Belle Mina area.
April 2021HailBelle Mina-Nickel sized hail was reported in Belle Mina.
February 2020FloodBelle Mina-Car submerged in floodwaters off of Mooresville Road close to Highway 20. Report relayed via social media.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindBelle Mina-Multiple trees were knocked down in Belle Mina close to the railroad tracks. Time estimated from radar.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindBelle Mina-Power lines were knocked down.
November 2017Thunderstorm WindBelle Mina-Trees and power lines were knocked down at the intersection of Garret Road and Mooresville Road.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindBelle Mina-Eight power poles snapped along Highway 20, near Greenbrier exit.
December 2005Thunderstorm WindBelle Mina-RECORDED AT KDCU (PRYOR FIELD) ASOS
August 2000HailBelle Mina-Nickel size hail fell near the intersection of I65 and I565, near Belle Mina.
January 1999Funnel CloudBelle Mina-A funnel cloud was reported near Belle Mina.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindBelle Mina-Several trees were reported down on Power Road in Belle Mina. A power pole was broken by the wind in Greenbrier. Two airplanes were flipped over by the wind at the Mooresville Airport east of the city.

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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
Mooresville2.0 miles22
Greenbrier2.1 miles25
Sweetwater2.8 miles22
Irvington2.9 miles22
Salem Corner3.0 miles22
Whiteside4.2 miles22
Harris Station4.8 miles22
Murphree Place5.0 miles22

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 Belle MinaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4883662The 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 151675. 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.