Dixie, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the East Escambia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36420. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dixie quadrangle.

Dixie within Escambia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Dixie quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

65 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Dixie between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,680 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Debris and open burning	15
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	National Forests in Alabama	PONY
16 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140816-001
11 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 1998	Natural	70 acres	National Forests in Alabama	POLEY CREEK
31 July 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dixie in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Dixie	$25,000	Winds estimated at 70 mph downed numerous trees and powerlines in and around Dixie.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Dixie	$15,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down by high thunderstorm winds near Dixie.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Dixie	$7,000	Trees were blown down near Dixie as thunderstorms moved through the area.
September 2004	Tornado (F0)	Dixie	$3,000	A weak tornado developed ahead of Hurricane Ivan just west of Dixie. The weak tornado moved quickly west northwest and dissipated about four miles northwest of Dixie. The weak tornado caused minor tree damage.
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Dixie	-	Significant roof damage to a home.
April 1999	Hail	Dixie	-	Dime size hail was reported just south of Dixie.

Every storm recorded in Escambia 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Marietta	3.1 miles	7
Damascus	7.5 miles	7
Bradley	7.7 miles	8
Parker Springs	7.8 miles	7
Boykin	8.2 miles	7
Roberts	10.0 miles	7
Rock Creek	10.2 miles	7
Rock Hill	15.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 161658. 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.