BlockChrysler, Alabama
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Uriah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36480. It stands on Joiner Branch. The Survey maps it on the Chrysler quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Chrysler quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Atmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
76 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Chrysler between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,164 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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 | 34 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20150926-004 |
| 26 September 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | 44 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20140923-001 |
| 15 September 1997 | Smoking | 24 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 August 2010 | Natural | 11 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20140816-002 |
| 26 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 July 2000 | Natural | 150 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chrysler in 1 storm report in 1998: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Hail | Chrysler | $10,000 | Baseball size hail fell in the community. Some vehicles in the area of the large hail were damaged. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pleasant | 2.0 miles | 8 | |
| Eliska | 3.4 miles | 8 | |
| Mineola | 4.0 miles | 8 | |
| Grove Hill | 6.2 miles | 7 | |
| Homewood | 7.0 miles | 8 | |
| Palmers Crossroads | 8.1 miles | 8 | |
| Jeddo | 10.1 miles | 8 | |
| Uriah | 10.5 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 151732. 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.