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Corona, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Oakman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35579. It lies near Church Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Oakman quadrangle. It stands 325 feet above sea level.

Corona within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

213 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Corona between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,449 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 120 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/incendiarism120
Debris and open burning53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
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
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160906-9
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Smoking5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20130920-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corona in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2011: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 2011Thunderstorm WindCorona$5,000A few trees were blown down in and around Oakman.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindCorona$3,000no account filed
May 2003HailCorona$2,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walker 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
Lockhart (historical)0.6 miles17
Patton0.9 miles17
West Corona1.5 miles17
Hayes Crossing1.8 miles17
Key Hill2.6 miles17
Pendley2.8 miles12
Stephenson Crossing2.9 miles17
Coal Valley3.5 miles17

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 CoronaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058427The 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 116660. 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.