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Danzey, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Headland-Newville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36345. It stands on Buck Branch. The Survey maps it on the Newville quadrangle.

Danzey within Henry 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Oates-Danzey House, West Washington & Trawick Streets, Abbeville, Henry County, AL
Oates-Danzey House, West Washington & Trawick Streets, Abbeville, Henry County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

75 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Danzey between 1994 and 2020, burning about 306 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2
Smoking1

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
7 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burning2.7 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-24
23 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190923-4
23 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160923-17
20 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1996Natural1.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160727-5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Danzey: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum. 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
Unnamed DepositAluminumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Danzey in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindDanzey$6,000Trees and power lines were blown down on County Road 99 between County Road 66 and County Road 257. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
April 2020Tornado (EF1)Danzey$5,000Damage from this tornado was primarily confined to snapped trees consistent with an EF1 tornado with max winds estimated at 95 mph. Roof damage to a double wide manufactured home occurred on Field Road.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindDanzey$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down along Highway 431.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindDanzey-Nine trees were blown down across Henry county.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindDanzey-A tree was blown down onto County Road 99.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindDanzey-A tree was blown down on County Road 32.

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Oakey Grove2.2 miles8
Capps2.3 miles8
Newville4.0 miles8
Tumbleton4.6 miles8
Balkum4.8 miles8
Browns Crossroad5.5 miles8
Union6.4 miles8
Miller7.5 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122595993The 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 156249. 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.