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Hollytree, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Princeton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35751. It lies near Williams Cove. The Survey maps it on the Hollytree quadrangle. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Hollytree within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Hollytree between 1998 and 2019, burning about 668 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning9
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 May 2011Arson/incendiarism16 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCR 65, AL
7 April 2010Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 April 2010Debris and open burning510 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 March 2006Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20140330-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

15 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hollytree in 15 storm reports between 2001 and 2019: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 flood, 2 heavy rain. 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindHollytree$8,000Four trees were blown down in the Holly Tree area.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindHollytree$3,000Two trees were snapped. A six inch diameter tree was snapped near its base, while a nearby sapling one inch in diameter was snapped halfway up the tree.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindHollytree$3,000Two trees were blown down in the Holly Tree community.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindHollytree$500Large tree limbs were blown down.
February 2019FloodHollytree-Standing water over AL Hwy 65 N between mile marker 11 and 12 in Holly Tree, AL.
February 2018FloodHollytree-Estimate of 14 inches of water flowing over Hwy 65 at MM11 near Mt. Nebo Baptist Church.
February 2018FloodHollytree-About 6 to 8 inches of water covering Hwy 65 near the 11-mile marker. Tree limbs and debris also in floodwaters from the Paint Rock Rover covering the road.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHollytree-A couple of trees and power lines were knocked down along Highway 65 near Holly Tree, in the Rocky Holler community. Time estimated by radar.
July 2017Flash FloodHollytree-Approximately 12 inches of water on Highway 65 around Mile Marker 11. Reported by a local resident.
July 2017Heavy RainHollytree-Holly Tree Coop Observer reported a 24-hour rainfall total of 4.05 inches.
March 2013HailHollytree-Quarter sized hail was reported.
September 2012Heavy RainHollytree-Heavy rainfall occurred, with 4.85 inches measured, near Hollytree.
May 2010HailHollytree-Penny sized hail was reported at a local grocery store.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHollytree-A few trees were blown down along Highway 65 near Hollytree.
June 2001HailHollytree-Dime to quarter size hail fell in the Hollytree area.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Princeton3.1 miles22
Padgett (historical)3.1 miles23
Little Nashville3.4 miles22
Trenton3.7 miles25
Beachboro (historical)4.4 miles22
Larkins Fork (historical)5.7 miles22
Swaim5.7 miles22
Garth5.7 miles25

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.

Wikipedia article on HollytreeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14679153The 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 156488. 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.