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Edna, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Lisman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36922. It stands on Bullock Branch. The Survey maps it on the Whitfield quadrangle.

Edna within Choctaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Edna between 1994 and 2014, burning about 301 acres in total. None 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140903-001
31 August 2000Misuse of fire by a minor1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2000Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140806-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edna in 1 storm report in 2007: 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
July 2007Thunderstorm WindEdna$10,000A severe thunderstorm downed trees northeast of Edna.

Every storm recorded in Choctaw 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
Pelham2.5 miles8
Indian Springs2.8 miles8
Oakchia3.5 miles8
Deas4.2 miles8
Naheola4.7 miles8
Cedahoma (historical)5.4 miles9
Choctaw City5.5 miles8
Pennington5.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156299. 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.