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Hanover, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Weogufka-Marble Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35136. It stands on Ray Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hollins quadrangle.

Hanover within Coosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

102 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Hanover between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,323 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 30 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 burning44
Arson/incendiarism30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
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 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20150914-002
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCR 53, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Hanover: 9 past producers, 7 prospects, 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tin, Graphite, Gold, Mica, Vanadium. 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
Abrams MineMicaPast Producer
Diamond MineGraphite, Mica, VanadiumPast Producer1919
USGS MR-60 Alabama No.6 ProspectFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Rockford Area DGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Rockford Area PlacersGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Rockford PlacerGoldPast Producer
Rockford PlacerGoldPast Producer
Ceylon GraphiteGraphitePast Producer1865, 1916
Diamond MineGraphitePast Producer
Lewis Brown PropertyGraphiteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Coosa County

Storms near this place

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hanover in 6 storm reports between 2005 and 2023: 5 hail, 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
March 2023HailHanover-Golf ball size hail reported in the Hanover Community.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindHanover-A large tree was uprooted, causing an automobile accident.
March 2005HailHanover-Penny size hail was reported near Hanover.
August 2023HailHanover-no account filed
April 2017HailHanover-no account filed
February 2008HailHanover-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coosa 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
Bentleyville4.5 miles14
Hatchet5.2 miles23
Crewsville5.5 miles14
Stewartville5.6 miles23
Mount Olive5.7 miles23
Weogufka5.9 miles24
Bradford6.3 miles14
Keyno6.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 159713. 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.