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Canoe, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Atmore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36502. The Survey maps it on the Atmore quadrangle. It stands 282 feet above sea level.

Canoe within Escambia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Canoe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 872 acres in total. 6 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 burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Arson/incendiarism22
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural6
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1
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
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190923-13
8 August 2006Natural23 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2007Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSAM JONESRD, AL
31 July 2006Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia 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 Canoe: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand. 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
Daniel Sand and Gravel ProspectSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Red Sand and Gravel - Sunday Road MineSandProducer

Every working recorded in Escambia County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canoe in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 4 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 2001HailCanoe$7,000no account filed
July 2000HailCanoe-Dime sized hail was reported in the community.
June 2023HailCanoe-no account filed
March 2023HailCanoe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Escambia 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
Malta2.3 miles9
Wawbeek2.7 miles8
Robinsonville2.8 miles9
Old Bratt Road Estates3.0 miles12
Southern Estates3.4 miles9
Briar Lake Estates4.1 miles9
Atmore4.3 miles9
Pleasant Hill4.9 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 CanoeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5032871The 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 115587. 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.