Buckhorn, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the New Market census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35761. It stands on Mountain Fork. The Survey maps it on the Maysville quadrangle.

Buckhorn within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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.

1888 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1936 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1951 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

49 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Buckhorn between 1997 and 2016, burning about 309 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Smoking	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckhorn in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2013: 1 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhorn	$2,000	Half of a tin roof was blown off of a barn. Pieces of the barn were blown across the road near the intersection of Oscar Patterson Road and Coleman Drive.
August 2008	Hail	Buckhorn	-	Penny size hail was reported near Buckhorn High School in northeastern Madison county.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Deposit	1.1 miles	24
Fannings Crossing	1.3 miles	20
Saint Clair Store	3.1 miles	24
Bell Factory	3.2 miles	24
New Market	3.3 miles	20
Three Forks	3.3 miles	24
McCaleb Mill	3.5 miles	24
Greenfield	3.6 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156128. 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.