Cedarville, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Greensboro South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36744. It stands on Little German Creek. The Survey maps it on the Casemore quadrangle.

Cedarville within Hale County

On record in Cedarville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Emory Schoollisted 1998

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Casemore quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

42 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Cedarville between 1995 and 2015, burning about 205 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20130922-001
21 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20130827-001
24 August 2011	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	QUAIL RD, AL
2 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedarville in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2014: 4 hail, 2 tornado, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2003	Hail	Cedarville	$35,000	Supercell 3 produced a weak tornado at its initiation then strengthened as it entered south central Hale County. A swath of penny to golf ball size hail was produced along the path from near Cedarville to near Newburn. The hail may have been larger but fell over mostly rural farming country. A few automobiles and homes were damaged. Several trees were also blown down near Newburn.
November 2001	Tornado (F0)	Cedarville	$25,000	A supercell tornado produced an F0 tornado near Cedarville. The tornado began at 12:34 pm about 1 mile south of Cedarville on SR 69. The tornado snapped and uprooted several trees along its path. One farm received damage to a few structures including one barn that had its roof torn off. Two automobiles were damaged by flying debris. The tornado ended at 12:36 pm near CR 9 just north of CR 16. The tornado path was 2.1 miles long and 75 yards wide at its widest point. The tornado remained over rural farmland for most of its path. Beg: 32 35.959/87 41.096 End: 32 37.530/87 38.748
April 2003	Tornado (F0)	Cedarville	$3,000	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Cedarville	$2,000	Golf ball size hail was observed in Cedarville.
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Cedarville	-	Several trees uprooted along County Road 16.
May 2003	Hail	Cedarville	-	Penny size hail was reported near Cedarville.
March 2013	Hail	Cedarville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hale 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Casemore	2.4 miles	12
Lock Five	4.1 miles	12
Whitsitt	4.2 miles	9
Port Royal	4.5 miles	10
Oak Grove	4.6 miles	12
Millwood	5.4 miles	11
Rosemary	5.6 miles	9
Gilmore Quarters	6.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156160. 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.

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.