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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.

Coy within Wilcox County

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

64 since 1994

Regional 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
30 September 1994Smoking1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190917-12
13 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1997Debris and open burning2.9 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 July 2000Natural10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 July 2006Debris and open burning14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilcox County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1996Flash FloodCoy$15,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCoy$1,000Several trees were blown down across the highway near Coy.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindCoy-High winds downed trees at Camden Bypass and Dees and Packer Roads.
April 2021HailCoy-Quarter size hail reported in Coy, AL.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindCoy-Multiple trees and power lines down near CR 12 and 13 and J.M. Brooks Road.

Every storm recorded in Wilcox 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
Sheppard1.5 miles7
Asahel2.9 miles7
Coal Bluff3.7 miles7
Nellie4.3 miles7
Yellow Bluff5.0 miles7
Dry Forks5.1 miles8
Lower Peach Tree5.8 miles7
Culpeper6.1 miles7

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 CoyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5179992The 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.