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Flournoys, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Phenix City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36869. It stands on Broken Arrow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Mitchell quadrangle.

Flournoys within Russell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

141 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Flournoys between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,273 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 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 burning62
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Recreation and ceremony18
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-9
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190921-11
16 September 2019Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-13
11 September 2002Smoking34 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-MUSCOGEE-001
1 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140901-002
1 September 1995Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Russell County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Flournoys: 12 producers, 1 past producer. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, REE, Clay. 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
Chattahoochee River GravelSand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, REEProducerIlmenite, Kyanite, Quartz, Rutile, Zircon
Cilla MineClayProducer
Dixieland MineSand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, REEProducerIlmenite, Kyanite, Quartz, Rutile, Zircon
Dixieland PitsSand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, REEProducerPlacer
No. 4 MinesClayPast Producer
Woolfolk MineClayProducer
Brown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dixieland MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kendrick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Russell County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flournoys in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 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
July 2015Thunderstorm WindFlournoys-Several trees uprooted along Highway 165 near Fort Mitchell.
March 2011HailFlournoys-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Russell 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
Brickyard2.0 miles22
Fort Mitchell2.1 miles20
Nuckols3.3 miles20
Fontaine Village4.4 miles22
Garrett Heights4.6 miles26
Kaolin5.1 miles22
Uchi (historical)5.1 miles23
Rolling Hills5.3 miles22

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 Q122542094The 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 156360. 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.