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Carlisle, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mountainboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35956. The Survey maps it on the Rodentown quadrangle.

Carlisle within Etowah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

147 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Carlisle between 1997 and 2019, burning about 993 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 76 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/incendiarism76
Debris and open burning53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190907-7
7 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2016Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160927-6
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Etowah County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Carlisle: 4 prospects, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
J H Vanzandt ProspectIronProspect
Jirama ProspectIronOccurrence
Leed Gap AreaIronPast ProducerHematite
Littleton AreaIronPast ProducerHematite
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect

Every working recorded in Etowah County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carlisle in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 5 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCarlisle$2,000Several trees were blown down on Lawson Gap Road, near Mountainboro.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCarlisle$2,000One tree blown down onto a power pole along Gazaway Road.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindCarlisle$1,000Trees and power lines were blown down on Mountain View Drive, northwest of Gadsden.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCarlisle$500A tree was blown down onto Lawson Gap Road, near the Mountainboro community.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCarlisle-Several trees uprooted near the intersection of Lawson Gap Road and Mountainboro Road.

Every storm recorded in Etowah 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
Mountainboro1.4 miles23
Happy Hill2.0 miles22
Copeland Gap2.0 miles22
Shady Grove2.2 miles19
Skyhaven Estates2.2 miles23
Cox Gap2.7 miles22
Maryville2.8 miles22
Rockledge2.8 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 115621. 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.