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Deposit, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the New Market census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35761. It stands on Buckhorn Branch. The Survey maps it on the Maysville quadrangle.

Deposit within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

51 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Deposit between 1997 and 2016, burning about 307 acres in total. None 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/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Smoking10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission4569 WINCHESTER RD, AL
20 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission391 COUNTY LAKE RD, NEW MARKET, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deposit in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
April 2025Thunderstorm WindDeposit$2,000Power lines were knocked down at 223 Cranbrook Drive.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindDeposit$1,000Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree onto a home.
August 2008HailDeposit$1,000Quarter size hail covered the ground and knocked leaves off trees 5 miles east of Meridianville. In addition, winds from the severe thunderstorm caused an apple tree to split in half.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindDeposit$200A tree was knocked down in the 5700 block of Maysville Road in New Market.
April 2023HailDeposit-Hail up to quarter size was reported on River Walk Trail off of Winchester road. Time was estimated by radar.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Buckhorn1.1 miles24
Bell Factory2.1 miles24
Fannings Crossing2.3 miles20
Three Forks2.3 miles24
McCaleb Mill2.5 miles24
Saint Clair Store2.7 miles24
Greenfield3.0 miles24
Moores Mill3.2 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156266. 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.