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Eddy, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Arab census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35016. It stands on Cranford Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hulaco quadrangle. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.

Eddy within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

38 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Eddy between 1995 and 2016, burning about 211 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
6 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160924-20
24 September 2010Debris and open burning26 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2016Debris and open burning7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160902-1
12 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eddy in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindEddy$2,000A large hardwood tree was toppled and uprooted on Chambers Road. Time estimated by radar.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindEddy$2,000A tree was blown down on Maple Hill road.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindEddy$1,000A tree was knocked down and blocking the intersection of Matt Morrow Road and U.S. Highway 231.
March 2021Flash FloodEddy-Matt Morrow Road, just west of Hwy 231 is reportedly about to be washed out. Report relayed via social media.
October 2021Flash FloodEddy-Two feet of water over Eddy Scant Road.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindEddy-Damaging straight-line winds knocked down large trees and caused power outages in the Ruth community along Highway 231, north of Arab.

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Meadowood0.6 miles20
North Arab0.9 miles20
Egypt1.5 miles20
Pine Lake Village2.0 miles20
Sunset Acres2.5 miles20
Ruth2.6 miles20
Arab2.7 miles24
Rice2.9 miles20

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 EddyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19461519The 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 117849. 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.