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Drummond, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Dora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35063. It lies near Allen Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Sipsey quadrangle.

Drummond within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Drummond Coal Company Cedrum Mine, 8750 Pit, County Road 124, Townley, Walker County, AL
Drummond Coal Company Cedrum Mine, 8750 Pit, County Road 124, Townley, Walker County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

270 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 270 fires within 5 miles of Drummond between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,046 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 117 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
Arson/incendiarism117
Debris and open burning91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use6
Other causes4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural3
Fireworks1

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
7 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140928-001
26 September 2019Natural12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190926-10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Drummond in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindDrummond$2,000Trees were blown down and an outbuilding was damaged.

Every storm recorded in Walker 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
Debardeleben1.1 miles21
Empire1.8 miles21
Hull2.2 miles21
Dilworth2.3 miles21
Creel2.5 miles23
Sumiton2.5 miles21
Black Warrior Town (historical)2.7 miles21
Dora Junction2.7 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 117488. 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.