Blackburn, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35611. The Survey maps it on the Ripley quadrangle.

Blackburn within Limestone County

On record in Blackburn

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.

Blackburn Houselisted 1984 · 0.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1936 USGS Ripley quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Ripley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Ripley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

78 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Blackburn between 1994 and 2020, burning about 551 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 burning	43
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
24 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190924-28
24 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190920-5
2 September 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	200 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190916-8
13 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

11 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blackburn in 11 storm reports between 2009 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Blackburn	$10,000	Trees were blown down on Blackburn Lane near Athens.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Blackburn	$2,000	A power pole was knocked down on Blackburn Road north of Quinn Road.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Blackburn	$1,500	Power lines were knocked down on Ham Road.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Blackburn	$1,000	A tree was knocked down at U.S. Highway 72 at Glaze Road. Time estimated by radar.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Blackburn	$1,000	A tree was reported down across the road at the intersection of Grubbs road and Zehner road.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Blackburn	$500	A tree was knocked down across the road at Grubbs Road at Zehner Road. Time estimated by radar.
February 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Blackburn	$500	A tree was knocked down on Blackburn Road south of Highway 72.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Blackburn	$500	A tree was knocked down on Glaze Road.
February 2026	Hail	Blackburn	-	Penny sized hail was reported via mPING.
February 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Blackburn	-	Trees and power lines were knocked down in many locations in southwest Limestone County. Power was knocked out in portions of Athens.
March 2012	Hail	Blackburn	-	Golf ball sized hail was reported.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Turner Chapel	2.5 miles	15
Green Hills	2.5 miles	15
Vestavia Estates	2.6 miles	15
Farmview	2.7 miles	15
Glenn Valley	2.7 miles	15
Ezell Place	2.8 miles	15
Reid	3.0 miles	15
Byram Heights	3.1 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 114437. 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.