Calhoun, Alabama
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fort Deposit census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36047. The Survey maps it on the Calhoun quadrangle.
On record in Calhoun
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Calhoun School Principal's Houselisted 1976
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Calhoun quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
1 photograph, 1936Taken 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.
Evans, Walker, 1936. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
128 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Calhoun between 1994 and 2020, burning about 772 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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 | 40 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190930-14 |
| 30 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190930-18 |
| 28 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.2 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | ECR-20150807-001 |
| 4 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 August 2004 | 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 Calhoun in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2020: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calhoun | $3,000 | Several trees were toppled along County Road 45 between Fort Deposit and Mount Willing. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calhoun | - | Several trees uprooted along County Road 33. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Deposit | 4.9 miles | 8 | |
| Sandy Ridge | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Logan | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Lum | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Letohatchee | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Ellis Crossroads | 7.0 miles | 7 | |
| Flatwoods | 7.8 miles | 7 | |
| Beechwood | 7.9 miles | 9 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Calhoun | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q96374278 | The 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 115394. 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.




