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Bibbville, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the West Blocton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35188. The Survey maps it on the Woodstock quadrangle.

Bibbville within Bibb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

186 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Bibbville between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,350 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 51 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 burning63
Arson/incendiarism51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony20
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
8 September 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20130903-001
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1994Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism49 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Bibbville: 20 unknowns, 13 occurrences, 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Iron. 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
Woodstock Brown Iron Ore DepositManganese, IronPast Producer1830, 1961
Woodstock MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Woodstock QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bibb CountyIronUnknown
Bucksville Area ProspectIronOccurrence
BushIronUnknown
EdwardsIronUnknown
GilesIronUnknown
GreenpondIronUnknown
HayesIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Bibb County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bibbville in 1 storm report in 2020: 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
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBibbville-Several trees uprooted along Beardens Farm Road.

Every storm recorded in Bibb 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
Academy Park1.1 miles19
North Bibb1.4 miles19
Woodstock Junction1.6 miles19
Woodstock1.7 miles19
Blockton Junc2.1 miles19
Big Springs (historical)2.5 miles19
Giles3.0 miles19
Banks3.0 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122554971The 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 156063. 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.