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Dickert, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Wadley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36276. It stands on Boatner Creek. The Survey maps it on the Roanoke West quadrangle.

Dickert within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

140 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Dickert between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,207 acres in total. 2 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 burning64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Arson/incendiarism23
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2005Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 237, AL
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20150920-003
20 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2011Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission327 CR 861, AL
17 September 2003Debris and open burning12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

6 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dickert in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2026: 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
March 2026Thunderstorm WindDickert-Several pine trees were snapped on CR 26 northwest of Roanoke.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindDickert-Several trees uprooted near the intersection of Highway 22 and County Road 65.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindDickert-Multiple trees uprooted along Highway 22 west of Roanoke.
December 2017Tornado (EF0)Dickert-NWS meteorologists surveyed damage in eastern Randolph County and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF0 tornado. The weak tornado touched near County Road 865 just north of Highway 22. Several metal roof panels were blown off a barn on County Road 865, with a few instances of snapped tree branches and snapped, slender pine trees noted downstream. A snapped tree was noted within the city limits of Roanoke.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindDickert-Several trees uprooted along Louina Road.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindDickert-A short swath of wind damage occurred in the Dickert community, beginning along Alabama Highway 22 approximately 0.49 miles northeast of County Road 823, where several softwoods were snapped. The short path of damage, approximately 0.1 mile long, continued to the northeast, where softwood and hardwood trees were snapped or uprooted on either side of Highway 22. The swath of damage ended approximately 0.38 miles from County Road 904.

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Peavy1.3 miles11
Pooles Crossroad1.3 miles11
Mount Olive1.6 miles11
Concord1.6 miles12
High Pine1.7 miles11
Blake1.9 miles11
Mount Zion2.9 miles11
Friendship3.7 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 117270. 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.