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Frisco, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Victoria census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36010. It stands on Butts Branch. The Survey maps it on the Brundidge SE quadrangle. It stands 394 feet above sea level.

Frisco within Coffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

31 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Frisco between 1995 and 2020, burning about 216 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
28 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150918-001
17 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-11
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.6 acresAlabama Forestry Commission2433 CO RD 210, AL
3 June 2012Natural11 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20120603-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Frisco: 1 unknown. 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

Every working recorded in Coffee County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frisco in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1994Tornado (F2)Frisco$500,000A tornado touched down about two miles east of Frisco in the New Hope Community causing extensive damage. Five homes and two mobile homes were damaged; one chicken house was destroyed and five others were damaged. Two houses had the roofs blown completely off.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindFrisco$300,000Four chicken houses and a residence were destroyed on County Road 107.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindFrisco-A tree was blown down onto County Road 107.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindFrisco-Trees were blown down on CR107.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindFrisco-Trees were blown down on CR121.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindFrisco-Hundreds of trees were blown down across northern Coffee County.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindFrisco-Trees were blown down onto County Road 114.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFrisco-Trees were blown down across the northern portion of Coffee county.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindFrisco-A tree was blown down and blocked both lanes of County Road 110 near County Road 107.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindFrisco-Trees were blown down on County Road 110 between Frisco and Roeton.

Every storm recorded in Coffee 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
Clowers Crossroads1.5 miles11
Roeton1.6 miles11
Chestnut Grove2.5 miles11
Java2.8 miles11
New Hope2.9 miles11
Victoria5.9 miles11
Wilkinstown7.1 miles11
Jack7.3 miles8

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 FriscoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058456The 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 156384. 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.