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Java, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Victoria census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36010. It stands on Clearwater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brundidge SE quadrangle. It stands 295 feet above sea level.

Java within Coffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Java between 1994 and 2020, burning about 178 acres in total. 1 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
28 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-11
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.6 acresAlabama Forestry Commission2433 CO RD 210, AL
3 June 2012Natural11 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20120603-001
14 June 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 May 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 May 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20130531-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Java: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Cof 2 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Coffee County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Java in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Thunderstorm WindJava$2,000Power lines were blown down on County Road 127.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindJava-Trees were blown down on CR117.
December 2009Tornado (EF0)Java-An F0 tornado touched down briefly in an open field near the intersection of County Road 107 and State Highway 51. No damage was reported.

Every storm recorded in Coffee 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 Hope1.3 miles11
Roeton2.8 miles11
Frisco2.8 miles11
Clowers Crossroads3.5 miles11
Chestnut Grove4.6 miles11
Victoria5.4 miles11
Mixson6.5 miles11
Lowry Mill7.5 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.

Wikipedia article on JavaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058486The 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 156525. 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.