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Campbell, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Coffeeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36727. It stands on Tallahatta Creek. The Survey maps it on the Morvin quadrangle. It stands 95 feet above sea level.

Campbell within Clarke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Campbell between 1994 and 2019, burning about 262 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190903-4
28 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning5.9 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2006Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190816-3
28 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 May 1998Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 May 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke 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 Campbell: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Cla 3 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Clarke County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Campbell in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 hail. 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
April 1999HailCampbell-Nickel to ping pong size hail was reported near Campbell.

Every storm recorded in Clarke 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
Failetown1.9 miles12
Opine2.8 miles8
Smyer3.3 miles12
Morvin4.3 miles8
Woods Bluff4.4 miles12
Cunningham5.3 miles12
Rock Springs5.6 miles12
Tallahatta Springs5.6 miles8

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 CampbellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2301075The 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 115488. 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.