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Guerryton, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Midway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36860. The Survey maps it on the Roba quadrangle.

Guerryton within Bullock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

115 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Guerryton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,745 acres in total. None started naturally. 45 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/incendiarism45
Debris and open burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Smoking11
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use4

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
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-1
29 September 2019Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190929-16
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190928-11
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190927-3
27 September 2000Debris and open burning38 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2019Debris and open burning4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190914-1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullock County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guerryton in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindGuerryton-Several trees were downed in northeastern Bullock County.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindGuerryton-Several trees uprooted along Highway 51 in far northeast Bullock County.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindGuerryton-Several trees uprooted along County Road 2 in far southeast Macon County.
March 2011HailGuerryton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bullock 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
Enon4.5 miles8
Suspension4.9 miles9
Peachburg7.6 miles9
Chunnenuggee8.8 miles8
Three Notch8.9 miles8
Midway10.0 miles8
Sedgefield11.1 miles8
Union Springs12.5 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.

Wikidata item Q122565481The 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 156436. 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.