BlockBlalock, Alabama
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Safford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36773. The Survey maps it on the Central Mills quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Central Mills quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
30 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Blalock between 1995 and 2019, burning about 287 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 | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.8 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 22 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 4.1 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190919-10 |
| 17 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.6 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 August 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blalock in 1 storm report in 2019: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Blalock | - | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in Dallas County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 75 mph.||This tornado was a continuation of a track from Perry County. The tornado entered Dallas County about one-half mile north of County Road 54. It lifted shortly after entering the county producing mainly tree damage. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safford | 1.6 miles | 10 | |
| Westbrook | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Central Mills | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Brookwood | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Eleanor | 4.0 miles | 10 | |
| Martin | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Donald | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Sedgefield | 5.0 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156074. 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.