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Floyd, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Eclectic census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36024. The Survey maps it on the Claud quadrangle.

Floyd within Elmore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

149 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Floyd between 1994 and 2020, burning about 996 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 17 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony18
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural3
Fireworks1
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
5 September 2006Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Debris and open burning3.9 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1998Debris and open burning4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Floyd in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 3 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
February 2022Thunderstorm WindFloyd-Several trees uprooted along Newman Road, including two on a home.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindFloyd-Structural damage to a home on Claud Fleahop Road. Garage door blown in causing roof to collapse on a vehicle. Vinyl siding partially removed and porch flipped over. Several trees next to the house uprooted.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindFloyd-Multiple trees were reported down in the Claud and Fleahop Communities.

Every storm recorded in Elmore 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
Glendale Acres1.6 miles17
Good Hope1.9 miles17
Chana Creek2.1 miles11
Neman2.2 miles11
Eclectic2.6 miles16
Claud3.2 miles17
Kent3.9 miles11
Butts Mill3.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 118456. 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.