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Inmanfield, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Addison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35540. The Survey maps it on the Addison quadrangle.

Inmanfield within Winston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Inmanfield between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,530 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 70 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/incendiarism70
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism40 acresNational Forests in AlabamaMORELAND-E
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaMILL CREEK 2
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaMILL CREEK 3
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaMILL CREEK 1
26 September 2000Natural15 acresNational Forests in AlabamaUPSHAW
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-18
17 September 2010Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaTOWER #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winston County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inmanfield in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2009Thunderstorm WindInmanfield$16,000A pole barn/storage shed was damaged and a couple of trees were blown down by winds estimated around 45 mph, between the Addison and Grayson communities.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindInmanfield-Multiple trees were uprooted along County Roads 41 and 43 north of Addison and in the Arley area of eastern Winston County.
June 2018Tornado (EF0)Inmanfield-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in extreme |northeastern Winston County and determined that it was consistent |with an EF0 tornado. The tornado began in a wooded area just east |of the County Road 80 bridge over Rock Creek. The tornado crossed |County 80 where a tree was uprooted. County Road 80 criss-crossed |the tornado's path a couple times as it moved eastward. Sporadic |tree damage occurred with several large branches broken and a few |trees uprooted or snapped. The roof was removed from a newer large |shed, and tin was peeled back from a couple of old barns. The tornado |crossed into Cullman County just south of County Road 1063.
July 2013Flash FloodInmanfield-A portion of County Road 80 was washed out at the Rock Creek bridge.

Every storm recorded in Winston 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
New Georgia1.5 miles13
Addison3.0 miles13
Upshaw3.0 miles17
Moreland6.0 miles11
Eagle6.8 miles13
Ellaville7.0 miles17
Grayson7.4 miles17
Houston8.0 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122569150The 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 159847. 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.