BlockEllawhite, Alabama
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Uniontown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36786. The Survey maps it on the Uniontown East quadrangle.
On record in Ellawhite
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Pitts' Follylisted 1984 · 0.7 miles away
Fairhope Plantationlisted 1992 · 0.8 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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 Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Uniontown East quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
70 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Ellawhite between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,068 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 34 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190904-4 |
| 30 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 1994 | Smoking | 45 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20140921-001 |
| 18 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20150918-002 |
| 16 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20150916-001 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellawhite in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 3 tornado. 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 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Ellawhite | $23,000 | A tornado touched down just north of Cooper Road off Highway 65 in Perry County. The tornado moved east-northeast where it snapped and uprooted numerous trees. Two outbuildings sustained significant damage. The tornado lifted just south of Highway 80 off of Tayloe Road. |
| March 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Ellawhite | - | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in Perry County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 75 mph.||The tornado touched down just west of Central Mills Road (County Road 1) in far southern Perry County. The tornado tracked eastward and crossed County Road 1 and White Hill Road where several trees were snapped. One home had a large section of its roof removed, but it appears that the wind got under the porch overhang, and lifted metal paneling and roof. The tornado then took a left turn and crossed Little Chilatchee Creek and Reverend R.L. Flowers Road before entering Dallas County. The damage was mainly limited to trees. |
| January 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Ellawhite | - | An EF0 tornado with winds of 80 mph touched down southeast of Uniontown, at the intersection of Cahaba Road and Yelverton Street. In this location several trees were uprooted. It then traveled northeastward, uprooting more trees along the path, and causing minor roof and siding damage to 5 homes. One home on Church Street was shifted off its foundation. From there the tornado traveled through a wooded area, breaking large branches off trees before it lifted. Key indicators of this weak tornado included very small amounts of leaf and grass splattering and roof damage on the downstream side of the homes. Several eyewitnesses confirmed seeing the tornado as it left the area. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Village | 0.3 miles | 9 | |
| Uniontown | 1.1 miles | 11 | |
| Hillcrest | 1.6 miles | 9 | |
| Rabbityard | 1.6 miles | 11 | |
| Tayloe | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Freetown | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Sugarville | 7.2 miles | 9 | |
| Vaiden | 8.8 miles | 9 |
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 Q122542255 | 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 146271. 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.