BlockBefore

Glasgow Corner, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Russellville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35653. It stands on Mountain Home Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Isbell quadrangle.

Glasgow Corner within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

77 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Glasgow Corner between 1997 and 2017, burning about 964 acres in total. None started naturally. 59 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
Arson/incendiarism59
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
9 September 2010Arson/incendiarism17 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Debris and open burning7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 120 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 120 workings within 5 miles of Glasgow Corner: 93 unknowns, 22 occurrences, 2 plants, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Rockwood Crushed Stone PlantLimestone, DimensionPlant
Rockwood MineLimestone, DimensionProducer
BlackburnIronUnknown
Blackburn MineIronPast Producer
Blacklidge TractIronOccurrence
Burrows TractIronOccurrence
DouglasIronUnknown
Hargett TractIronOccurrence
J H Taylor Tract No. 1IronOccurrence
J H Taylor Tract No. 2IronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glasgow Corner in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2008Thunderstorm WindGlasgow Corner$1,000Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down on Highway 187 and County Road 52.
November 2018Thunderstorm WindGlasgow Corner$200A tree was knocked down on Alabama Highway 187.
March 2017HailGlasgow Corner-Quarter sized hail was reported at Little Bear Creek Reservoir at Highway 184 and William Hollow Road in Spruce Pine.
March 2017Funnel CloudGlasgow Corner-A funnel cloud descended from a wall cloud.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Belgreen2.6 miles14
Old Nauvoo3.3 miles12
Guinn Cross Roads4.6 miles12
Rockwood4.6 miles14
Duketon5.3 miles14
Dempsey5.4 miles12
Isbell6.2 miles14
Piney Bend6.6 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122599066The 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 156409. 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.