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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.

Chamblees Mill within Blount County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

63 since 1995

Regional 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use26 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Recreation and ceremony3.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blount County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2018Thunderstorm WindChamblees Mill-Several trees uprooted and power lined downed along County Road 26 near the city of Blountsville.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindChamblees Mill-Trees were reported down along County Road 47, near the Cullman County line.

Every storm recorded in Blount 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
Gum Springs0.9 miles19
Sky Ball3.3 miles19
Mountain Grove3.3 miles20
Joy3.4 miles20
Blountsville4.4 miles20
Pine Acres4.5 miles20
Fowler Spring4.8 miles20
Cleveland6.9 miles21

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 Q122564760The 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.