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Central City, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Enterprise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36330. It stands on Bells Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Coffee Springs quadrangle. It stands 315 feet above sea level.

Central City within Coffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

34 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Central City between 1994 and 2020, burning about 254 acres in total. 2 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 burning13
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-12
16 September 2019Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-3
11 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2000Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 July 2000Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190729-11
8 May 2020Debris and open burning43 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200508-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Central City: 19 unknowns, 8 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Graphite. 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 M Smith ProspectGraphiteProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Coffee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Central City in 1 storm report in 2012: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2012Thunderstorm WindCentral City$1,000A tree was blown down near the intersection of Highway 27 South and County Road 723. Monetary damage was estimated.

Every storm recorded in Coffee 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
Battens Crossroads1.3 miles11
Keyton4.2 miles12
Pine Forest4.4 miles11
Griffin Heights4.5 miles12
Singing Brook4.7 miles12
College Heights4.7 miles12
Green Acres4.9 miles12
Pinedale Estates5.1 miles12

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 Central CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058416The 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 154446. 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.