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Cypress, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Moundville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35474. The Survey maps it on the Moundville West quadrangle.

Cypress within Hale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

145 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Cypress between 1995 and 2020, burning about 454 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 23 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 burning63
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use14
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Fireworks1
Natural1
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 2002Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCR 46, AL
7 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission1679 CO RD 64, AL
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-4
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140923-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale 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 Cypress: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Cypress PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Hale County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cypress in 1 storm report in 2008: 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 2008Thunderstorm WindCypress$2,000Several trees were blown down, south of Moundville.

Every storm recorded in Hale 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
Powers1.4 miles9
Stewart3.3 miles9
Moundville4.0 miles9
Havana4.4 miles11
Oak Village6.2 miles14
Akron6.3 miles9
Harper Hill6.9 miles11
New Prospect8.3 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 155045. 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.