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Eoda, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Andalusia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36421. It stands on Feagins Creek. The Survey maps it on the Opp West quadrangle.

Eoda within Covington 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.

Fires near this place

60 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Eoda between 1994 and 2020, burning about 508 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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 burning25
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
23 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190923-8
21 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-12
2 September 2014Natural17 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140902-002
16 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2000Natural8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2007Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Covington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 51 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 51 workings within 5 miles of Eoda: 33 unknowns, 18 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Covington County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eoda in 2 storm reports in 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
December 2015FloodEoda$3,160,000Numerous roads in the county were closed due to flooding. Many dirt roads and bridges were damaged by the flood waters.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindEoda$5,000Severe trees were downed on County Road 70 between Andalusia and Opp by severe thunderstorm wind gusts around 60 mph.

Every storm recorded in Covington 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
Cedar Grove1.7 miles8
Harmony3.2 miles8
Antioch3.5 miles8
Opine3.7 miles8
Wiggins4.1 miles8
Five Points4.6 miles7
Rose Hill5.3 miles7
Straughn5.3 miles8

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 Q122544578The 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 156320. 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.