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Inverness, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Inverness census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36089. The Survey maps it on the Aberfoil quadrangle. It stands 427 feet above sea level.

Inverness within Bullock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

125 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Inverness between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,870 acres in total. None started naturally. 34 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 burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Arson/incendiarism34
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-8
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined46 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190927-18
23 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190923-16
20 September 2019Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-2
20 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140828-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullock County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inverness in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2004Thunderstorm WindInverness$2,000Several small trees were knocked down between Halls Crossroads and Inverness.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindInverness-Multiple trees uprooted between County Road 223 and Highway 29.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindInverness-Several trees uprooted along County Road 14.

Every storm recorded in Bullock 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
Jenkins Crossroads1.7 miles8
Scottland2.3 miles8
Blues Old Stand2.6 miles7
Omega3.4 miles8
Bread Tray Hill3.6 miles8
Sellers Crossroads4.0 miles8
Postoak4.0 miles8
Tito4.6 miles8

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 InvernessAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3709416The 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 155113. 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.