Havana, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Moundville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35474. The Survey maps it on the Moundville East quadrangle.

Havana within Hale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Moundville East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Moundville East quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

117 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Havana between 1995 and 2020, burning about 540 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 16 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 burning	44
Arson/incendiarism	16
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20150909-001
8 September 2002	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20150907-001
7 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2006	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	1679 CO RD 64, AL
25 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160925-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale 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 Havana: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cypress Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hale County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Havana in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado. The reports record 3 injuries. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Havana	3 hurt, $120,000	A strong downburst apparently occurred when a thunderstorm developed and collapsed rapidly upon the interaction with an outflow boundary from other nearby convection in the area about 2.6 miles west of Havana in northern Hale County. One business (a small grocery) was partially deroofed (essentially destroyed), four mobile homes were damaged including one that was completely flipped over, one that lost shingles, one that was pushed off it's blocks, and one that was sliced by a falling tree. The three injuries, all minor, occurred in the mobile home that flipped. Numerous trees were downed including some that were estimated to be over 200 years old. Trees were downed in an area that extended for about 2.5 miles west and southwest of the heaviest damage.
November 2006	Tornado (F1)	Havana	$10,000	The tornado touched down just south of the intersection of State Highway 69 and County Road 32, which is roughly half way between the Havana community and Greensboro. The tornado then tracked northeastward, and lifted at the southwestern edge of the Talladega National Forest near County Road 29. Hundreds of trees were either snapped off or were blown down along the path.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Havana	$3,000	Several trees were blown down near the Havana and Stewart communities.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Havana	$1,000	A few trees were blown down on AL-69, south of Havana.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Havana	-	Several trees uprooted and power lines downed north of Greensboro along Highway 69.
April 2022	Hail	Havana	-	Hen egg size hail reported in Havana.
March 2021	Tornado (EF3)	Havana	-	National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in eastern northeast Hale County and determined that it was consistent with an EF3 tornado, with maximum winds near 140 mph.\|\|The tornado initially began in a heavily wooded area northeast of Gabriel Creek Rd and tracked northeast. Radar imagery suggests the tornado quickly intensified. Farther downstream, significant timber damage was observed on County Rd 50, as well as National Forest Rd 706. This timber damage was quite impressive and very wide at many points with both hardwood and softwood trees snapped and uprooted. The magnitude of timber damage suggested winds of 140 mph. The tornado continued northeast causing further damage to a large swath of the Talladega National Forest in far northeast Hale County. The tornado crossed into southeast Tuscaloosa County very near the northwest tip of Bibb County.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Havana	-	Several trees snapped along Highway 69.
April 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Havana	-	Several trees uprooted and blocking roads.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Havana	-	Several trees uprooted north of the town of Havana.
March 2013	Hail	Havana	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Havana	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Havana	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hale 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Harper Hill	2.7 miles	11
Cypress	4.4 miles	9
Ingram	4.5 miles	11
Stewart	4.7 miles	9
Powers	5.2 miles	9
Akron	6.6 miles	9
Phipps	6.7 miles	11
Moundville	7.1 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 159736. 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.