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Halawaka, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Smiths Station census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36854. The Survey maps it on the Beulah quadrangle.

Halawaka within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

90 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Halawaka between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,048 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism22
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
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
9 September 2016Debris and open burning12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160909-6
29 September 2019Arson/incendiarism85 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190929-8
21 September 2010Debris and open burning96 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresAlabama Forestry Commission952 LEE RD 357, AL
27 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD. 379, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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 Halawaka: 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Feldspar. 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
Hearn MineClayProducer
Lee 1 Clay ProspectFeldsparProspect

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Halawaka in 1 storm report in 2015: 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHalawaka-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed near the intersection of County Road 158 and Lee Road.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Mechanicsville1.3 miles13
Tillery Crossroad2.4 miles13
Powledge2.7 miles13
Wacoochee Valley3.0 miles13
Jester3.1 miles13
McCulloh3.1 miles13
Beulah3.3 miles13
Yarbrough3.8 miles13

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 Q122555204The 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 156443. 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.