BlockEvansboro, Alabama
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Gilbertown-Toxey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36908. The Survey maps it on the Melvin quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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 Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Melvin quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Melvin quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Waynesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
36 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Evansboro between 1993 and 2016, burning about 315 acres in total. None 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 burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Mississippi Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Mississippi Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 450 PLANTATION DRIVE, AL |
| 26 July 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Mississippi Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 July 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Mississippi Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 June 2007 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 June 1998 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Mississippi Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Mississippi Forestry Commission | MS0 0909-3120408001 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evansboro in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 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) | Evansboro | $40,000 | Tornado touched down near Hurricane Road taking the roof off of one mobile home and damaging one other. The tornado continued northeast across Melvin road and was tracked by a local newspaper reporter on the scene farther to the northeast. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melvin | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Water Valley | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Paragon | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Emory | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Okatuppa | 5.7 miles | 12 | |
| Eiler | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Isney | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Gilbertown | 7.8 miles | 12 |
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 Q122558303 | 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 156325. 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.