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Burnt Corn, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 36460. The Survey maps it on the Burnt Corn quadrangle.

Burnt Corn within Conecuh County

On record in Burnt Corn

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Watkins House, State Highway 30, Burnt Corn, Conecuh County, AL
Watkins House, State Highway 30, Burnt Corn, Conecuh County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

75 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Burnt Corn between 1994 and 2019, burning about 522 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
28 September 2006Debris and open burning14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2010Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conecuh County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burnt Corn in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 1997: 2 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
January 1997Thunderstorm WindBurnt Corn$1,500no account filed
December 1996Thunderstorm WindBurnt Corn$1,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Conecuh 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
Green Street2.3 miles7
Harpers Store3.1 miles7
Fowler4.2 miles8
Ramah4.2 miles7
Fairnelson4.5 miles8
Brantley Crossing4.5 miles7
Bermuda4.8 miles8
Stokes5.2 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 115265. 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.