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Dillard, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ozark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36360. The Survey maps it on the Ariton quadrangle. It stands 305 feet above sea level.

Dillard within Dale 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

48 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Dillard between 1994 and 2020, burning about 336 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
21 September 2005Smoking3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2010Smoking1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140829-001
18 July 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 May 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dale 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 Dillard: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Dal 1 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Dal 2 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Dale County

Storms near this place

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dillard in 9 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindDillard$100,000Trees and power lines were down. A house on Coby Drive house in southwest Ozark was severely damaged from a fallen tree.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindDillard$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindDillard$500A tree was blown down on Marley Mill Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDillard-Trees were blown down on CR11 off CR231.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindDillard-A tree was blown down in the 4100 block of Highway 231 N, blocking one lane of traffic on the southbound side of the highway.
November 2018Thunderstorm WindDillard-A tree was blown down onto County Road 108.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindDillard-Trees were blown down on County Road 108.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindDillard-Trees were blown down on County Road 11.
July 2013Flash FloodDillard-Paramore Road was closed at the intersection of AL 234.

Every storm recorded in Dale 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
Marley Mill1.7 miles12
Barnes2.0 miles8
Dill2.2 miles8
Ozark5.0 miles12
Rocky Head5.2 miles11
Beamon5.8 miles7
Ariton5.8 miles8
Pleasant Hill6.2 miles12

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 DillardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058437The 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 156270. 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.