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Grangeburg, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Gordon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36343. It stands on Guy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Grangeburg quadrangle. It stands 190 feet above sea level.

Grangeburg within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

59 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Grangeburg between 1993 and 2020, burning about 663 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
18 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2011Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission18195 COTTONWOOD RD, AL
7 July 2017Natural105 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20170707-1
16 July 2006Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest Service32/LOGAN LOOP-0819
21 June 2000Equipment and vehicle use36 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 June 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 June 1993Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBAXTER RD (32)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Grangeburg: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grangeburg in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2016: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindGrangeburg$2,000A tree was blown down onto power lines on Miller Merrett Road.
December 2016FloodGrangeburg-County Road 81 was flooded between Bazemoore Mill Road and County Road 4 as a result of a long duration of moderate to heavy rainfall.
September 2015Flash FloodGrangeburg-A deputy reported water covering the road near Capps Road and South County Road 81. A local pond in the area likely overflowed.
May 1995HailGrangeburg-Hail up to three-quarters of an inch was reported across the southern portion of Houston County.

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Sealy Springs5.5 miles8
Cottonwood5.7 miles8
Harmon6.5 miles8
Crosby7.0 miles8
Terry Crossroads7.9 miles8
Love Hill8.2 miles8
Dupree8.4 miles7
Lucy9.1 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 GrangeburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058459The 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 119230. 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.