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Corner, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Warrior census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35180. The Survey maps it on the Creel quadrangle. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Corner within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

219 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 219 fires within 5 miles of Corner between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,331 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 81 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/incendiarism81
Debris and open burning79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural3
Other causes2
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
8 September 2010Smoking2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Smoking20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Debris and open burning50 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190928-9
26 September 2019Natural12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190926-10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corner in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
April 2010Tornado (EF1)Corner$50,000After crossing into Jefferson County from Walker County, the Parrish Tornado continued its northeastward path. Damage in Jefferson County primarily consisted of trees that were blown down and snapped. A tree fell into and broke a living room window of a home on Arkadelphia Road, and a large storage shed had its roof torn off.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindCorner$6,000Law enforcement reported trees and signs down on Mt. Olive Road and Warrior-Jasper Road near the Corner area.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCorner$5,000A tree fell on a house along Manning Road.
May 2023HailCorner-Quarter size hail reported in Corner community.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCorner-Several trees uprooted in the Corner Community.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindCorner-Several trees uprooted on Corner Road.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindCorner-Approximately one dozen trees were blown down in a uniform direction.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCorner-Winds were estimated around 60 mph in the Corner community.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Willow Grove Estates0.7 miles23
Partridge Crossroads2.7 miles23
Bagley Meadows4.2 miles23
Bagley4.4 miles21
Petes Crossroads4.6 miles21
Beltona5.0 miles26
Cane Creek5.0 miles26
Robbins Crossroads5.3 miles28

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.

Wikipedia article on CornerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3709407The 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 116654. 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.