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Edmond, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hatton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35672. It lies near Jeffreys Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Town Creek quadrangle.

Edmond within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

108 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Edmond between 1994 and 2019, burning about 958 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 38 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 burning39
Arson/incendiarism38
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160908-16
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160927-3
25 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190925-7
21 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Edmond: 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Tuscumbia QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edmond in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindEdmond$10,000Ten or more reports were received of trees and power lines being knocked down. Roads were blocked in some cases. The reports were most concentrated in and near the town of Hatton and areas northwest toward Leighton in Colbert County. Time estimated.
July 2017Funnel CloudEdmond-The public photographed a funnel cloud from a thunderstorm along Highway 72 between Town Creek and Leighton. The funnel dissipated shortly after the photo was taken. Time and location are estimated.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Wolf Springs3.0 miles15
Ne Smith3.7 miles15
Town Creek4.5 miles15
Avoca (historical)4.8 miles19
Oak Grove5.7 miles15
Rigdom5.8 miles14
Hatton6.0 miles15
Rocky Hill (historical)6.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 136753. 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.