Industry, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Georgiana-McKenzie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36033. The Survey maps it on the Industry quadrangle.

Industry within Butler 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Industry quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

95 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Industry between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,778 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 22 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 burning	41
Arson/incendiarism	22
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Smoking	5
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
10 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2011	Natural	46 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	COOKS BRIDGE ROAD, AL
12 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 July 2019	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190728-1
27 July 2019	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190727-5
15 July 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 June 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Industry in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Industry	$20,000	A weak tornado blew down several trees east of Georgiana. A tractor trailer was blown off State Highway 106 by the wind.
March 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Industry	-	High winds downed trees near the intersection of North Friendship drive and Highway 106..
March 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Industry	-	High winds downed trees at CR 16 and Highway 106.

Every storm recorded in Butler 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Shell	2.2 miles	8
Oaky Streak	3.6 miles	7
Rhodes	4.6 miles	8
Avant	4.8 miles	8
Brushy Creek	5.4 miles	9
East Chapman	6.1 miles	9
Pigeon Creek	6.7 miles	7
McKenzie	6.9 miles	8

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 Industry	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65084817	The 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 120678. 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.