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Central Mills, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Safford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36773. The Survey maps it on the Central Mills quadrangle.

Central Mills within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

57 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Central Mills between 1994 and 2020, burning about 823 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
28 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-10
13 September 1997Debris and open burning1.6 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2000Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1994Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 July 2000Debris and open burning24 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined110 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionLINDEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Central Mills in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCentral Mills$500One tree was blown down on AL-66, near Safford.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindCentral Mills-Several trees uprooted near the intersection of County Road 66 and County Road 109.
April 2022HailCentral Mills-Large hail reported along Highway 5 southwest of Safford.
March 2021Tornado (EF0)Central Mills-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southwest Dallas County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 65 mph. The tornado touched down near State Road 66, just east of County Road 109. At this location, a few large branches were snapped off. The tornado tracked northeast through pastureland where additional minor tree damage was observed. The tornado lifted just north of County Road 109 where a large softwood tree was uprooted.

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Blalock3.4 miles11
Donald3.6 miles9
Safford3.7 miles10
Sedgefield5.3 miles9
Westbrook6.2 miles10
Cobbs Quarters6.8 miles9
Brookwood7.0 miles10
Martin7.4 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122552279The 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 156163. 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.