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Hardwickburg, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Shorterville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36373. It stands on Fleming Branch. The Survey maps it on the Haleburg quadrangle.

Hardwickburg within Henry 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

44 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Hardwickburg between 1994 and 2020, burning about 184 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1999Debris and open burning3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Debris and open burning1.7 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 2000Natural11 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2000Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hardwickburg: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum. 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
Unnamed DepositAluminumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hardwickburg in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHardwickburg$3,000Several trees and power lines were blown down along Highway 95 South between Abbeville and Haleburg. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
February 2016Tornado (EF1)Hardwickburg-A short tornado path was observed along CR-65 just to the east of its intersection with Highway 95. Many large trees were snapped or uprooted along this short path. This tornado was rated EF1 with max winds estimated around 105 mph.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHardwickburg-A tree was blown down onto County Road 65.

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Union2.6 miles8
Barnes2.7 miles7
Miller4.0 miles8
Hayes4.1 miles8
Wills Crossroads4.3 miles8
Browns Crossroad5.6 miles8
Shorterville5.6 miles8
Oakey Grove5.8 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 Q122542884The 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 155090. 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.