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Eoline, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Centreville-Brent census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35042. It stands on Horse Branch. The Survey maps it on the Centreville West quadrangle. It stands 276 feet above sea level.

Eoline within Bibb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

185 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 185 fires within 5 miles of Eoline between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,482 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 52 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 burning53
Arson/incendiarism52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use19
Recreation and ceremony18
Smoking11
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionEOLINE, AL
7 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Natural1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-9
23 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Eoline: 2 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
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bibb County

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eoline in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2005: 3 hail. 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 2005HailEoline-Penny size hail was reported near the Eoline community in far western Bibb County.
May 2001HailEoline-Nickel size hail was observed in Eoline.
March 2005HailEoline-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bibb 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 Hill1.9 miles11
Ingate2.0 miles11
Little Hope2.8 miles20
Choctaw Hills3.0 miles11
Scottsville3.1 miles18
Harmon3.4 miles20
Spencer3.5 miles11
Egypt (historical)3.9 miles20

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.

Wikipedia article on EolineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058444The 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 159575. 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.