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Corbin, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Wedowee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36278. It stands on Rollins Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wedowee quadrangle.

Corbin within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

138 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Corbin between 1994 and 2019, burning about 614 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 21 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 burning61
Arson/incendiarism21
Recreation and ceremony19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2010Debris and open burning9.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCO.RD.59, AL
21 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1998Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corbin in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
May 2008HailCorbin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Hobson1.7 miles10
New Hope1.7 miles10
Peace1.8 miles10
Mount Pleasant1.9 miles10
Haywood2.0 miles10
Rocky Branch2.2 miles10
Midway2.7 miles10
Tennant2.8 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 140206. 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.