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Hawthorn, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Wagarville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36585. It stands on Henson Creek. The Survey maps it on the McIntosh quadrangle.

Hawthorn within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

341 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 341 fires within 5 miles of Hawthorn between 1994 and 2020, burning about 8,943 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 156 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/incendiarism156
Debris and open burning84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined73
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
7 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2015Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150919-001
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burning265 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hawthorn in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2006: 1 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
February 1996Thunderstorm WindHawthorn$2,500no account filed
May 2006HailHawthorn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
New Wakefield3.1 miles14
Toinette4.3 miles14
Topton4.6 miles14
Seaboard5.4 miles14
Sunflower5.4 miles14
McIntosh5.5 miles14
Reid Settlement6.0 miles15
Cortelyou7.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156459. 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.