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Beulah, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Beulah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36854. The Survey maps it on the Beulah quadrangle. It stands 699 feet above sea level.

Beulah within Lee County

On record in Beulah

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

114 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Beulah between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,457 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 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 burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Arson/incendiarism17
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1

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
9 September 2002Debris and open burning3.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2012Other causes25 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120924-001
21 September 2010Debris and open burning96 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2016Natural6.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-HARRIS-002
14 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2016Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-HARRIS-001
7 August 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Beulah: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Feldspar. 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
Cha 1 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Lee 1 Clay ProspectFeldsparProspect

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beulah in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 5 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBeulah$1,000Damage occurred to a baseball field with several metal poles bent over at ground level.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBeulah$1,000A couple of trees were blown down near Lake Harding, in the eastern portion of Lee County.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBeulah-Several trees uprooted in Beulah.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBeulah-Several trees uprooted in the town of Beulah.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBeulah-A dozen trees were snapped and power lines blown down near Lake Harding on County Road 379.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Yarbrough1.0 miles13
Tillery Crossroad1.4 miles13
McCulloh1.8 miles13
Jester2.1 miles13
Blanton3.0 miles13
Halawaka3.3 miles13
Mechanicsville3.6 miles13
Pine Grove3.7 miles15

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 BeulahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3709481The 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 114173. 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.