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Carrville, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Tallassee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36078. The Survey maps it on the Carrville quadrangle.

Carrville within Tallapoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

130 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Carrville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,061 acres in total. None started naturally. 35 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
Arson/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony12
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1

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 2017Debris and open burning35 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20170908-1
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120927-002
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120902-001
18 September 2000Smoking3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Arson/incendiarism18 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minor2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tallapoosa 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 Carrville: 1 producer. 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
Sharpe # 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tallapoosa County

Storms near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carrville in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2014: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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 2003Thunderstorm WindCarrville$120,000The second supercell merged with the original supercell at this time across southern Tallapoosa County. This re-energized the storm considerably. Damaging winds associated with this transformed supercell moved across extreme southern Tallapoosa County. Numerous trees were blown down from near Lake Martin to near Reeltown. Hail up to 2.00 inches in diameter accompanied the storm.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindCarrville$2,000Several trees and power lines were blown down on the east side of Tallassee, in Tallapoosa County.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindCarrville$2,000Several trees and power lines were blown down near the intersection of SR 49 and SR 14.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCarrville-Several trees uprooted in the city of Tallassee.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCarrville-Power lines reported down near the intersection of Notasulga Road and Macedonia Road.
March 2005HailCarrville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tallapoosa 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
Tallapoosa City1.1 miles11
Buckville2.0 miles11
Smith3.4 miles11
Reeltown5.1 miles11
Liberty City6.8 miles11
Cherokee Bluffs9.3 miles11
Church Hill (historical)9.4 miles10
Union10.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 115652. 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.