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Bolling, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Chapman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36037. It stands on Arnold Branch. The Survey maps it on the Georgiana East quadrangle.

Bolling within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

138 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Bolling between 1994 and 2020, burning about 874 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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
Equipment and vehicle use48
Debris and open burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-3
6 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-2
5 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160905-3
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190903-3
28 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190928-14
23 September 2019Debris and open burning23 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190923-18
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-7
15 September 1998Debris and open burning1.6 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bolling in 1 storm report in 2022: 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
February 2022Thunderstorm WindBolling-Strong winds downed trees along I-65 at MM 119.

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Wald3.1 miles8
Sand Cut3.4 miles8
Chapman3.8 miles9
East Chapman4.1 miles9
Brushy Creek4.4 miles9
Providence6.2 miles7
Beacon6.3 miles7
Georgiana6.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 114698. 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.