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Blackman, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the La Fayette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36862. The Survey maps it on the Camp Hill SE quadrangle.

Blackman within Chambers County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

91 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Blackman between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,085 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 22 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 burning32
Arson/incendiarism22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
3 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120926-003
25 September 2016Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-8
24 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180924-2
23 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180923-4
23 September 2016Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160923-19
21 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Blackman: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Clay, Mica. 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
Doc Heard ProspectMicaPast Producer
Unnamed OccurrenceAluminum, ClayOccurrence1982
Unnamed OccurrenceAluminum, ClayOccurrence1982

Every working recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blackman in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 tornado. 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 2022Tornado (EF0)Blackman-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in western Chambers County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 80 mph. A brief weak tornado touched down near County Road 33 where an outbuilding was damaged with sheet metal blown downwind. Otherwise, some trees were snapped and uprooted along the short path of the tornado.

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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
Sikes2.2 miles10
Kendall Crossroads2.4 miles12
Culebra3.6 miles12
Judson3.9 miles12
Moorefield5.3 miles12
Sturkie5.7 miles12
New Harmony6.1 miles12
Fordyce6.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156070. 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.