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Garden, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Aliceville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35442. The Survey maps it on the Aliceville North quadrangle.

Garden within Pickens County

On record in Garden

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

66 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Garden between 1994 and 2020, burning about 496 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 burning29
Recreation and ceremony10
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
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 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined47 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150923-002
22 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2015Debris and open burning27 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150918-003
18 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens 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 Garden: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Pickens County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garden in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2012: 1 flash flood, 1 flood, 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
December 2012Thunderstorm WindGarden-Trees were uprooted along Martin Luther King Road northwest of Aliceville, as well as along County Road 9 and County Road 35 just north of Carrollton.
September 2011Flash FloodGarden-Numerous roads were flooded across Pickens county as a result of heavy rainfall from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee. Numerous streets and parking lots in Aliceville were flooded. Residents of one home had to be evacuated.
September 2011FloodGarden-Due to heavy rainfall from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee, several roads and parking lots remained flooded. Waters receded and roads were reopened by Tuesday morning, September 6.

Every storm recorded in Pickens 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
McMullen0.7 miles11
Aliceville2.5 miles11
Beaver Town2.8 miles11
Stevens3.9 miles11
Cunningham4.2 miles11
Bridgeville4.2 miles12
Sapps4.5 miles11
Dillburg5.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156393. 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.