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Holy Trinity, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cottonton-Seale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36856. The Survey maps it on the Omaha quadrangle. It stands 312 feet above sea level.

Holy Trinity within Russell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

66 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Holy Trinity between 1994 and 2020, burning about 575 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 burning34
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burning12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1998Debris and open burning2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 1995Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1998Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2000Smoking34 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-STEWART-003
11 August 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Russell County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Holy Trinity: 2 producers. 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
Pit Number 7Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Uchee Creek MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz

Every working recorded in Russell County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holy Trinity in 2 storm reports in 2005: 2 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
December 2005HailHoly Trinity$2,000Golf ball size hail was observed in Holy Trinity.
March 2005HailHoly Trinity-Half dollar size hail was reported from Holy Trinity to Fort Mitchell.

Every storm recorded in Russell 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
Loflin2.3 miles10
Oswichee3.9 miles20
Apalatchukla (historical)5.4 miles23
Yuchi (historical)5.9 miles23
Sawokli (historical)6.2 miles10
Uchi (historical)6.3 miles23
Cottonton6.4 miles10
McLendon6.6 miles10

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 Holy TrinityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5886349The 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 120313. 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.