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Doublehead, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Five Points census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36274. The Survey maps it on the Milltown quadrangle.

Doublehead within Chambers 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

152 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Doublehead between 1994 and 2019, burning about 944 acres in total. None started naturally. 31 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 burning67
Arson/incendiarism31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking1
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
9 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 237, AL
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-26
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-29
23 September 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180923-3
20 September 2010Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers 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 Doublehead: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. 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
R.I.Beckem PropertyIron, ManganeseOccurrence

Every working recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Doublehead in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 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
January 2023HailDoublehead-Quarter size hail reported near the intersection of County Road 237 and County Road 258.

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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
Welch2.9 miles11
Clackville3.0 miles11
Stroud4.3 miles11
Red Level4.4 miles11
Cumbee Mill4.6 miles11
Rock Fence4.6 miles11
Milltown5.5 miles11
Five Points5.7 miles11

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 Q122596803The 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 156278. 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.