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Butts Mill, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Tallassee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36078. It stands on Harrington Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tallassee quadrangle.

Butts Mill within Elmore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

151 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Butts Mill between 1994 and 2016, burning about 1,558 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 22 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 burning61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism22
Recreation and ceremony20
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
5 September 2006Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120927-002
2 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Arson/incendiarism18 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minor2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1998Debris and open burning4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Butts Mill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sharpe # 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Elmore County

Storms near this place

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butts Mill in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 4 hail, 4 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
August 2008Thunderstorm WindButts Mill$10,000Sporadic trees and power lines were blown down from thunderstorm outflow, from the Friendship Community to Deatsville.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindButts Mill$3,000A 20 inch diameter tree was blown down onto a cable line on Gilmer avenue northwest of Tallassee.
May 2024HailButts Mill-A social media photo confirmed that tennis ball size hail fell along Highway 14 west of Tallassee.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindButts Mill-Several trees uprooted along Tallassee Highway.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindButts Mill-A few trees uprooted along Friendship Road.
March 2010HailButts Mill-no account filed
July 2009HailButts Mill-no account filed
April 2008HailButts Mill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Elmore 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
Neman1.7 miles11
Friendship1.8 miles11
Burlington (historical)1.8 miles11
Hornsbytown2.5 miles11
Good Hope2.8 miles17
Liberty3.3 miles11
Jordanville3.9 miles11
Floyd3.9 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122540249The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156140. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.