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Farill, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cedar Bluff-Gaylesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35959. The Survey maps it on the Melson quadrangle.

Farill within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

282 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 282 fires within 5 miles of Farill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,906 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 197 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
Arson/incendiarism197
Debris and open burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony1
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
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism6.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FLOYD-017
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-10
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined44 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200922-5
22 September 2010Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-FLOYD-029

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Farill: 4 unknowns. 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

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farill in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2008: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2008Thunderstorm WindFarill$20,000Several trees were blown down on AL-9, including one that fell onto a church, east of Gaylesville.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindFarill$3,000Several trees were blown down on County Road 51, just south of Highway 9.

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Sterling (historical)0.7 miles19
Hall Valley1.4 miles16
Lawrence2.2 miles19
Alpine Shores2.7 miles19
Waterhouse2.8 miles17
Fullerton3.4 miles16
Meadows Estates3.5 miles19
Gaylesville3.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122595916The 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 118199. 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.