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Hogglesville, Alabama

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

Hogglesville 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.

Fires near this place

80 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Hogglesville between 1995 and 2019, burning about 639 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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 burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150909-001
9 September 2011Natural6.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaHALF BAKED
7 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150907-001
5 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaBRAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale County

Storms near this place

8 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hogglesville in 8 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 3 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Hogglesville$350,000A tornado initially touched down in eastern Hale County and tracked northeast into the Talladega National Forest and western Bibb County. The tornado lifted just east of Mertz. The tornado touched down east of CR 85, southwest of Hogglesville and tracked northeast along CR 25. As the tornado moved through Wateroak, a mobile home and a business were damaged. Significant tree damage was also noted along the path. Damage was consistent with an EF1 rating and winds of 110 mph. The tornado moved into Bibb County south of CR 25.
September 2011Tornado (EF0)Hogglesville$12,000An EF0 tornado, associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee, with estimated peak winds of 70 MPH touched down approximately 8 miles northeast of Greensboro, near the intersection of County Road 32 and County Road 51. The tornado moved north-northeast, parallel to Alabama Highway 25, and lifted just north of Starling Rd. The tornado snapped off or uprooted several trees. The downed trees caused roof damage to a house and a small storage barn. The metal roof panels of another outbuilding were torn off.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindHogglesville-Hundreds of trees uprooted and snapped along County Road 25 northeast of Greensboro.
April 2021HailHogglesville-Quarter size hail reported near Lake Payne.
December 2019Tornado (EF0)Hogglesville-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in eastern Hale County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 75 mph.||The tornado touched down along County Road 32 in eastern Hale County where a few pine trees were uprooted. The tornado tracked northeast and crossed into Perry County about one-half mile south of Massengale Road.
December 2014Thunderstorm WindHogglesville-Several trees uprooted near the intersection of Highway 25 and County Road 29.
September 2012Flash FloodHogglesville-Several roads north of Greensboro were closed due to over 6 inches of flowing water over the roadways. These roads include Highway 25, County Road 32, and County Road 85.
April 2017HailHogglesville-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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Wateroak2.1 miles11
Ingram2.9 miles11
Dominick4.6 miles11
Phipps5.2 miles11
Harper Hill6.4 miles11
Havana7.4 miles11
Cypress11.3 miles9
Powers11.6 miles9

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 Q122557956The 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 159785. 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.