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Bruceville, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fitzpatrick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36089. The Survey maps it on the Almeria quadrangle.

Bruceville within Bullock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

55 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Bruceville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,087 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20130903-001
28 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2000Arson/incendiarism77 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1995Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20120701-001
1 July 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullock County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bruceville in 1 storm report in 2008: 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 2008Thunderstorm WindBruceville$5,000Several trees were uprooted and snapped, with one of them falling across US-82 and onto a barbed wire fence.

Every storm recorded in Bullock 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
Simsville1.3 miles8
Mount Hillard2.8 miles8
Hooks Crossroads3.2 miles8
Hector3.4 miles9
High Ridge3.5 miles9
Cornerstone4.0 miles9
Sardis4.6 miles8
Bread Tray Hill4.7 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156122. 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.