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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.

Calhoun within Lowndes County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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, 1936

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.

George Cook and his wife of Calhoun community. Lowndes County, Alabama
George Cook and his wife of Calhoun community. Lowndes County, Alabama
Evans, Walker, 1936. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

128 since 1994

Regional 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 burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism14
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-14
30 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-18
28 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20150807-001
4 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCalhoun$3,000Several trees were toppled along County Road 45 between Fort Deposit and Mount Willing.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCalhoun-Several trees uprooted along County Road 33.

Every storm recorded in Lowndes 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
Fort Deposit4.9 miles8
Sandy Ridge5.2 miles11
Logan5.3 miles7
Lum5.7 miles9
Letohatchee6.3 miles11
Ellis Crossroads7.0 miles7
Flatwoods7.8 miles7
Beechwood7.9 miles9

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 CalhounAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q96374278The 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.