BlockFrancisco, Alabama
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Princeton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35745. It stands on Granny Branch. The Survey maps it on the Estill Fork quadrangle. It stands 771 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1888 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1939 USGS Estill Fork quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Estill Fork quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Estill Fork quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
28 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Francisco between 1998 and 2015, burning about 140 acres in total. None 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/undetermined | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | NOR-20130906-001 |
| 4 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Tennessee Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | NOR-20150919-001 |
| 1 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | NOR-20150801-001 |
| 17 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | NOR-20150617-005 |
| 14 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | NOR-20150414-001 |
| 30 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | NOR-20150328-004 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Francisco in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2018: 2 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2012 | Tornado (EF1) | Francisco | $5,000 | A tornado of up to EF-1 intensity produced peak wind speeds of 90 mph. The tornado snapped and uprooted trees just west of Highway 65 near Francisco. The tornado tracked into far southwestern Franklin County in Tennessee for about another quarter of a mile before lifting. This tornado was spawned from the supercell thunderstorm which had produced an EF-3 tornado in east central Limestone into northern Madison Counties earlier in the morning. It is unknown if additional damage occurred with this tornado in the higher terrain of northeast Madison and northwest Jackson Counties as these areas were inaccessible by ground vehicle. |
| March 2018 | Tornado (EF1) | Francisco | - | A tornado produced EF-1 damage near Highway 25 between mile markers 25 and 26. The primary damage indicators were trees on both sides of highway. The beginning of the tornado damage was observed on the west side of Hwy 25 on the downslope |of an east-facing ridge. An extensive area of downed trees was noted along the slope as it approached the valley. As the tornado tracked east-northeast back up a west-facing slope along Hwy 25, trees were uprooted across the road and a distinctive cyclonic circulation approximately 200 yd wide was observed. Due to inaccessible locations,|the damage assessment team approximated the touchdown near the mid-slope|of the ridge west of Hwy 25 and the lifting point on lower half of the slope on the east side of Hwy 25. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Larkin | 5.7 miles | 21 | |
| Estillfork | 6.8 miles | 21 | |
| Milan (historical) | 6.9 miles | 21 | |
| Jack Lane (historical) | 8.2 miles | 21 | |
| Larkins Fork (historical) | 8.3 miles | 22 | |
| Greerton (historical) | 8.3 miles | 21 | |
| Swaim | 8.6 miles | 22 | |
| Jericho | 9.0 miles | 21 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Francisco | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q19879889 | The 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 156378. 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.