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Holly Grove, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Townley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35587. It stands on Miner Branch. The Survey maps it on the Townley quadrangle.

Holly Grove within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

204 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Holly Grove between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,697 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 95 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/incendiarism95
Debris and open burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural3
Smoking2
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
8 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Natural15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160906-5
6 September 1999Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2006Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker 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 Holly Grove: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Glen Allen No. 2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Walker County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holly Grove in 2 storm reports in 2011: 2 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindHolly Grove$3,000Several trees were uprooted along Pleasant Hill Rd.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindHolly Grove$2,000Several trees were blown down along Coal Valley Rd.

Every storm recorded in Walker 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
Townley0.8 miles18
Cedrum1.6 miles18
Hilliard3.0 miles18
Pleasant Grove3.7 miles17
New Jagger3.8 miles17
Pocahontas4.0 miles18
Saragossa4.3 miles18
McCollum5.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 120269. 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.