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Fostoria, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Mosses census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36775. It stands on Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Braggs quadrangle.

Fostoria within Lowndes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

60 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Fostoria between 1995 and 2020, burning about 623 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
26 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120926-002
19 September 2015Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20150919-001
19 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use13 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20130918-003
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fostoria in 1 storm report in 2007: 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
October 2007Thunderstorm WindFostoria$5,000Numerous trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Lowndes 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
Braggs3.1 miles11
Farmersville3.3 miles11
Collirene6.2 miles11
Macedonia6.6 miles8
Mount Willing7.1 miles9
Palmyra7.4 miles8
Gordonsville7.4 miles9
Gordonville7.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 118540. 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.