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Johns, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the North Johns census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35006. It stands on Suck Branch. The Survey maps it on the McCalla quadrangle.

Johns within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

275 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 275 fires within 5 miles of Johns between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,910 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 142 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/incendiarism142
Debris and open burning77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160908-14
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2019Debris and open burning80 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-5
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Johns: 13 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
No NameIronPast ProducerHematite
O A Griffin ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johns in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2015: 5 hail, 1 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
March 2002HailNorth Johns$75,000no account filed
February 2004HailNorth Johns$6,000no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindJohns-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed near the community of North Johns.
June 2012HailJohns-no account filed
February 2004HailNorth Johns-no account filed
February 2004HailNorth Johns-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
North Johns0.5 miles20
Sumter1.1 miles19
Adger1.4 miles20
Black Diamond1.7 miles20
Blue Creek1.9 miles20
Lawsontown2.0 miles20
Valley Creek2.7 miles20
Weller2.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 120921. 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.