Center Dale, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Eva census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35621. It stands on Pruitt Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lawrence Cove quadrangle.

Center Dale within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

1888 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1936 USGS Lawrence Cove quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Lawrence Cove quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Lawrence Cove quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

37 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Center Dale between 1998 and 2019, burning about 234 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	1885 COUNTY ROAD 1559, AL
25 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160923-9
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Center Dale in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Center Dale	$2,000	Trees were blown down at the intersection of Pentecost Road and highway 55 E.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Center Dale	$2,000	A tree was blown down near the intersection of Highway 67 and Cotaco Florette Road.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Center Dale	$1,000	A tree was knocked down at 1008 Lawrence Cove Road.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Center Dale	$1,000	A tree was knocked down on Double South Mountain road.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Center Dale	$1,000	A tree was knocked down at the intersection of Pine Burr Road at Lawrence Cove Road.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Center Dale	$200	A power line was knocked down in the roadway at Bethel Church and Gum Pond Roads.
August 2020	Tornado (EF0)	Center Dale	-	A storm survey determined damage near Eva, near the Cullman County and Morgan County line, was consistent with an EF-0 tornado with winds up to 84 mph. The tornado continued from Cullman County into Morgan County where maximum sustained damage was noted on Pentecost Rd. Here, the tornado destroyed a small storage structure built from cinder blocks. This small structure appeared to be unanchored and not reinforced which led to the collapse of the walls and the roof. Video evidence from this location also saw vehicles being lifted up and sat down and a boat being lifted up and pushed about 3 feet from its location. The tornado lifted in a field north of Pentecost Rd.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Center Dale	-	Trees and power lines were knocked down on Daniels Chapel Road. Time estimated by radar.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Eva	2.0 miles	17
Oden Ridge	4.2 miles	17
Union Hill	4.2 miles	17
Peach Grove (historical)	5.5 miles	20
Winn Crossroads	5.8 miles	20
Ryan Crossroads	6.1 miles	20
Center Grove	6.2 miles	20
Cole Spring	6.2 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 115839. 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.