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Creek Stand, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Warriorstand-Creek Stand census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36860. The Survey maps it on the Creek Stand quadrangle.

Creek Stand within Macon County

On record in Creek Stand

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

278 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 278 fires within 5 miles of Creek Stand between 1994 and 2020, burning about 7,402 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 99 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/incendiarism99
Debris and open burning78
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Smoking23
Recreation and ceremony16
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2

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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160909-19
30 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-1
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190928-11
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190927-3
24 September 2008Smoking5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 51, AL
2 September 2010Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2018Misuse of fire by a minor7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180917-8
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macon County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Creek Stand: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hurtsboro MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hurtsboro QuarrySilica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz

Every working recorded in Macon County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Creek Stand in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 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
April 2009Thunderstorm WindCreek Stand$500A couple of trees were blown down near the intersection of CR-79 and CR-10, near the Creek Stand community.

Every storm recorded in Macon 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
Boromville2.1 miles9
Warriorstand4.2 miles8
Hannon4.6 miles9
Roba7.1 miles9
Society Hill9.3 miles9
Armstrong10.3 miles8
Davisville10.4 miles8
Little Texas11.3 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 116837. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.