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Glen Mary, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Lynn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35565. The Survey maps it on the Lynn quadrangle. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Glen Mary within Winston 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

68 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Glen Mary between 1995 and 2020, burning about 657 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 22 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/incendiarism22
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
4 September 2000Natural1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Arson/incendiarism55 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20130915-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winston County

Storms near this place

1 since 2026

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen Mary in 1 storm report in 2026: 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindGlen Mary-Various reports of downed trees across the Delmar community.

Every storm recorded in Winston 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
Natural Bridge2.4 miles11
Batts Nest (historical)2.4 miles13
Delmar3.3 miles13
Goat Ranch (historical)3.5 miles12
Bethel (historical)4.2 miles13
Boar Tush4.6 miles13
Larissa (historical)5.0 miles11
German Crossing5.8 miles11

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 Glen MaryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5567882The 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 159670. 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.