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Equality, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Rockford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36026. The Survey maps it on the Equality quadrangle. 150 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 735 feet above sea level.

Equality within Coosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

81 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Equality between 1994 and 2019, burning about 811 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural1
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 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160907-5
28 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-16
22 September 2018Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180922-9
19 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coosa County

Storms near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Equality in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
April 2011Tornado (EF2)Equality2 hurt, $14,100A tornado touched down 6.4 miles west of Central, along County Road 334 in Elmore County. The tornado moved to the northeast and crossed the Coosa County line. The tornado then crossed State Highway 9 and continued moving east, eventually crossing into Tallapoosa County. The tornado lifted on the east side of northern Lake Martin. In Coosa County, numerous trees were snapped or uprooted. One home suffered significant damage and several outbuildings sustained roof damage.
November 2005Tornado (F1)Equality$16,000National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed the damage that affected areas west of Equality. It has been determined that the damage was the result of a tornado. The tornado has been rated an F1 on the Fujita Damage Intensity Scale. The tornado touched down near Weoka Creek in far southern Coosa County, just east of County Road 67. The tornado tracked northeastward and ended after it crossed Self Road, just west of County Road 2. This location is approximately 2.5 miles west of Equality. The tornado damage was rather short, only 0.4 miles long. The tornado was 150 yards wide at its widest point. One home sustained roof damage and a pool shed was destroyed. Several pine trees were snapped off along the path.Begin: 32.7558/86.1649 End: 32.7583/86.1394
April 2005HailEquality$1,000Penny size hail was reported near Equality.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindEquality-Several trees uprooted in the Equality area.
December 2005HailEquality-Nickel size hail temporarily covered the ground in the Nixburg community.
May 2001HailEquality-Quarter size hail was reported just northeast of Equality.

Every storm recorded in Coosa 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
Nixburg4.6 miles14
Cottage Grove6.6 miles14
Speed6.9 miles14
Pentonville7.6 miles14
Pinthlocco (historical)7.9 miles14
Fishpond8.4 miles14
Ray9.3 miles14
Hissop9.4 miles14

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 EqualityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5384162The 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 118017. 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.