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Beloit, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Orrville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36767. It stands on Childers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Orrville quadrangle. It stands 197 feet above sea level.

Beloit within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

86 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Beloit between 1994 and 2020, burning about 793 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
6 September 2019Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-8
26 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160924-2
22 September 2019Debris and open burning3.6 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190922-22
20 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Debris and open burning4.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Beloit: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Henry PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beloit in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2013: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Beloit$70,000A tornado touched down east of County Road 189 and north of County Road 205 in Dallas County. As the tornado moved east, numerous trees were snapped or uprooted. The tornado lifted approximately 1.6 miles northeast of where it initially touched down. Maximum winds were estimated to be 105 mph.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBeloit-Powerlines were reported down along Highway 22, just west of Beloit.

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Hazen3.1 miles13
Cahaba3.6 miles13
Potter5.7 miles15
Salem6.0 miles10
Whites Bluff6.1 miles13
Orrville6.1 miles13
Sunset Mill Village6.2 miles15
Mount Nebo6.8 miles13

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 BeloitAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4884489The 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 154980. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.