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Enon, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Vinemont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35179. The Survey maps it on the Eva quadrangle.

Enon within Cullman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

62 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Enon between 1998 and 2019, burning about 322 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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 burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
7 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140921-003
19 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Enon in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
March 1995Tornado (F0)Enon$40,000A small tornado damaged several houses along with downing trees and power lines. A barn and a chicken house were also destroyed.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindEnon$2,000A tree and power line were knocked down at 2462 CR 1492.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindEnon$1,000A tree was knocked down blocking the roadway at 341 CR 1447.
May 2021Flash FloodEnon-County Road 1447 bridge washed out due to pipes in the dirt road being exposed. Additional road closures reported on CR 1427 due to the bridge being washed out.
July 2015Tornado (EF0)Enon-A tornado continued its path from Morgan County into Cullman County at Eva Road at County Road 1459 where a tree was snapped at its trunk and where a home lost considerable amounts of siding on the west facing side.

Every storm recorded in Cullman 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
Pleasant Ridge1.6 miles17
Providence2.6 miles17
Mount View3.3 miles17
Gold Ridge3.4 miles17
North Vinemont4.1 miles17
Dyers Crossroads4.2 miles19
County Line4.6 miles18
Pleasant View4.8 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156318. 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.