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Cromwell, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Lisman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36912. It stands on Eureka Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lisman quadrangle.

Cromwell within Choctaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

82 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Cromwell between 1994 and 2019, burning about 686 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
8 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 1999Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140801-003
3 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cromwell in 1 storm report in 2006: 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
May 2006HailCromwell$5,000Thunderstorms dropped quarter to golfball size hail between Cromwell and Lisman. The hail lasted for several minutes and some vehicles had their windshields damaged from the hail.

Every storm recorded in Choctaw 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
Mollie0.9 miles8
Halsell3.8 miles8
Lisman4.2 miles8
Chapel Hill4.6 miles9
Pushmataha4.8 miles8
Jachin5.6 miles9
Yantley5.7 miles8
Little Walker7.4 miles9

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 CromwellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65046607The 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 156228. 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.