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Calumet, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Jasper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35501. It stands on Town Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jasper quadrangle.

Calumet within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

402 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 402 fires within 5 miles of Calumet between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,297 acres in total. None started naturally. 232 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
Arson/incendiarism232
Debris and open burning96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking8
Other causes4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2006Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1768 NEW PARRISH HWY, AL
6 September 1999Debris and open burning1.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Calumet: 2 producers. 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
Glen Allen No. 2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Patton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Walker County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calumet in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2015: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCalumet-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed on Old Shiloh Road.
April 2010HailCalumet-no account filed
April 2009HailCalumet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walker 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
Cameron0.8 miles17
Bankhead1.5 miles17
Frisco Quarters2.2 miles17
Jasper2.6 miles17
McCollum2.6 miles17
Mount Hope3.0 miles19
Sardis3.6 miles17
New Jagger4.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 115400. 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.