BlockBraggville, Alabama
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Forkland-Tishabee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35443. The Survey maps it on the Forkland quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1947 USGS Forkland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Forkland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
67 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Braggville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 559 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 27 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Smoking | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 87 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 39 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20150926-001 |
| 23 September 2004 | Smoking | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 July 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Braggville in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 1 hail, 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 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Braggville | - | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southern Greene County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 65 mph. The tornado formed along County Road 20 just northwest of the intersection of County Road 142. It tracked northeastward crossing County Road 142 before dissipating in a wooded area. Damage was mainly limited to uprooted trees but a hunting blind was also blown over. A TDS was observed by a nearby Doppler on Wheels mobile radar. Special thanks to the NSSL UAS team for their assistance with this survey. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Braggville | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157898. 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.