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Hybart, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Vredenburgh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36481. The Survey maps it on the Hybart quadrangle.

Hybart within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

61 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Hybart between 1994 and 2020, burning about 324 acres in total. 5 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 burning20
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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
3 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Natural2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1997Debris and open burning2.9 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1997Natural3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2000Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2000Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hybart in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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
January 2008Thunderstorm WindHybart$20,000no account filed
August 1996Flash FloodHybart$15,000no account filed
February 2016Thunderstorm WindHybart$2,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees along Oakley Road.
November 1997Thunderstorm WindHybart$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down along State Road 41 near the community of Hybart.
February 2020FloodHybart-Monroe County started to experience flooding from the Alabama River on February 9th with the river not falling below flood stage until March 3rd. At Claiborne Lock and Dam, the river crested at 53.66 feet on February 25th, which is in major flood stage and the 5th highest crest on record. The lock and dam was flooded and shut down during the peak of the flooding. Numerous areas along the river in Monroe County were inaccessible for several weeks.
May 2003HailHybart-no account filed
March 1997HailHybart-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Tinela1.5 miles7
Vredenburgh3.2 miles8
Packards Bend6.7 miles7
Buena Vista7.4 miles7
Franklin7.9 miles8
Chestnut8.0 miles7
River Ridge8.6 miles7
Natchez9.4 miles7

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 HybartAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28185131The 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 151844. 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.