Eliska, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Uriah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36480. The Survey maps it on the Chrysler quadrangle.

Eliska within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Chrysler quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Atmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

56 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Eliska between 1994 and 2017, burning about 1,404 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 burning	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	10
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
15 September 1997	Smoking	24 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2010	Natural	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 2000	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 July 2000	Debris and open burning	150 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 July 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 June 1995	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	236 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	3088 TOWER RD, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eliska in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 1 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Eliska	-	Multiple trees were downed by severe thunderstorm wind gusts along Weatherford Road.
May 1997	Hail	Eliska	-	Dime size hail was reported along CR 8 near Eliska.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mount Pleasant	1.5 miles	8
Grove Hill	2.9 miles	7
Chrysler	3.4 miles	8
Homewood	4.6 miles	8
Mineola	5.7 miles	8
Palmers Crossroads	8.0 miles	8
Jeddo	9.1 miles	8
Uriah	10.1 miles	8

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 Q122561716

The 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 156304. 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.