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Evansville, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Stewart-Akron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35441. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Warrior Dam quadrangle.

Evansville within Hale 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

99 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Evansville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 540 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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 burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism16
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 1995Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140927-001
24 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150924-001
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140923-001
22 September 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Debris and open burning7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190921-18

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Evansville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Akron PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hale County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evansville in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2022: 2 tornado, 1 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
April 2022Tornado (EF1)Evansville-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in western Hale County and determined that it was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum winds near 90 mph. This tornado originated in near Eutaw in Greene County and crossed into Hale County at the Black Warrior River near Finches Ferry Road. In Akron, several trees were uprooted and an apartment building suffered minor roof damage. The tornado continued to cause occasional tree damage as it moved just north of Highway 60. Multiple trees were then uprooted along Cedarwood Road. After this point, discerning the tornado path from sporadic tree damage caused by straight line winds in the bowing segment became difficult, but the tornado appears to have dissipated prior to crossing Highway 69.
November 2022Tornado (EFU)Evansville-This tornado crossed the Black Warrior River several times and this is a short segment that the tornado moved into Hale County from Greene County. The area was inaccessible so the segment was rated as unknown intensity.
March 2019HailEvansville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hale 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
New Prospect0.9 miles9
Wedgeworth2.1 miles14
Darrah2.3 miles14
Akron2.7 miles9
Oak Village4.2 miles14
Stewart5.6 miles9
Sawyerville6.1 miles9
Harper Hill7.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 155062. 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.