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Concord, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Berry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35555. The Survey maps it on the New Lexington quadrangle.

Concord within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

72 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Concord between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,079 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 32 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
Arson/incendiarism32
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
6 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Arson/incendiarism18 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCANAN ROAD , AL
9 August 2006Arson/incendiarism5.1 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2000Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2007Smoking3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190801-4
9 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Concord in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 1997: 1 hail, 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
February 1997Thunderstorm WindConcord$5,000no account filed
March 1994HailConcord-Hail in sizes from quarter to golf ball were reported in Concord in southern Fayette County.

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
New Hope2.4 miles10
Newtonville3.8 miles11
Gumbud7.1 miles10
Jerusalem8.2 miles11
Ashcraft Corner9.1 miles10
Bankston9.2 miles10
Rossland City9.6 miles10
Stough10.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 137709. 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.