Coy, Alabama
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Coy-Fatama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36435. The Survey maps it on the Coy quadrangle. It stands 95 feet above sea level.
On record in Coy
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Dry Forks Plantationlisted 1999
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Dry Forks Plantation, County Road 12, Camdenfederal building survey, 18 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Coy quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
64 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Coy between 1994 and 2020, burning about 467 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning | 31 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1994 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190917-12 |
| 13 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.9 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 July 2000 | Natural | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 July 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 14 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coy in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1996 | Flash Flood | Coy | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coy | $1,000 | Several trees were blown down across the highway near Coy. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coy | - | High winds downed trees at Camden Bypass and Dees and Packer Roads. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Coy | - | Quarter size hail reported in Coy, AL. |
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coy | - | Multiple trees and power lines down near CR 12 and 13 and J.M. Brooks Road. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheppard | 1.5 miles | 7 | |
| Asahel | 2.9 miles | 7 | |
| Coal Bluff | 3.7 miles | 7 | |
| Nellie | 4.3 miles | 7 | |
| Yellow Bluff | 5.0 miles | 7 | |
| Dry Forks | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Lower Peach Tree | 5.8 miles | 7 | |
| Culpeper | 6.1 miles | 7 |
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 Coy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5179992 | The 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 156222. 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.



