Chamblees Mill, Alabama
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Blountsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35031. It lies near North Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Garden City quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Garden City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1975 USGS Garden City quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
63 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Chamblees Mill between 1995 and 2019, burning about 461 acres in total. 2 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 burning | 31 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 26 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.2 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chamblees Mill in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2018: 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chamblees Mill | - | Several trees uprooted and power lined downed along County Road 26 near the city of Blountsville. |
| March 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chamblees Mill | - | Trees were reported down along County Road 47, near the Cullman County line. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gum Springs | 0.9 miles | 19 | |
| Sky Ball | 3.3 miles | 19 | |
| Mountain Grove | 3.3 miles | 20 | |
| Joy | 3.4 miles | 20 | |
| Blountsville | 4.4 miles | 20 | |
| Pine Acres | 4.5 miles | 20 | |
| Fowler Spring | 4.8 miles | 20 | |
| Cleveland | 6.9 miles | 21 |
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 Q122564760 | The 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 156165. 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.








