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Joffre, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Billingsley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36067. The Survey maps it on the Vida quadrangle. It stands 443 feet above sea level.

Joffre within Autauga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

232 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 232 fires within 5 miles of Joffre between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,590 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 29 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 burning115
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Arson/incendiarism29
Recreation and ceremony21
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural6
Smoking6

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
29 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-14
28 September 2016Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-6
27 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Debris and open burning12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission1931 BARRETT HILL LANE, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Autauga County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Joffre in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 hail. 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
March 2023HailJoffre-Quarter size hail reported along Highway 82 in northwest Autauga County.

Every storm recorded in Autauga 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
Spur (historical)1.8 miles18
Old Kingston2.2 miles18
Vida Junction2.4 miles18
Gibbons (historical)2.8 miles18
Hillside (historical)2.9 miles18
Vida3.8 miles18
Browntown4.2 miles18
Independence4.3 miles18

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 Q3180333The 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 156533. 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.