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Cornhouse, Alabama

11 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 Gaston Branch. The Survey maps it on the Roanoke West quadrangle.

Cornhouse within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

153 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Cornhouse between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,211 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 29 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 burning67
Arson/incendiarism29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190927-8
21 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20150920-003
20 September 1998Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2003Debris and open burning12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2016Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160915-12

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cornhouse in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2013: 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
October 2009Thunderstorm WindCornhouse$1,000A carport was displaced from a home at the intersection of US-431 and CR-65, in the Rock Stand community.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCornhouse-A tree was uprooted along Highway 431 and County Road 65.

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
Harmon Crossroads1.9 miles11
Broughton2.9 miles11
Friendship3.1 miles11
Tennant3.1 miles10
West3.2 miles10
Midway3.6 miles10
White Signboard Crossroad4.2 miles11
Hobson4.8 miles10

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 Q122560835The 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 156215. 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.