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Kirbytown, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Town Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35755. It stands on Yellow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Swearengin quadrangle.

Kirbytown within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

72 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Kirbytown between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,351 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism16
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160907-2
4 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150930-001
30 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-20
16 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission535 CO. LINE RD., AL
15 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission535 CO. LINE RD., AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kirbytown: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Jac 9a Clay ProspectClayProspect
Shelley Thomas ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirbytown in 4 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 3 tornado, 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindKirbytown$200One tree was knocked down on Holiday Shores Drive.
April 2025Tornado (EF0)Kirbytown-Very sporadic tree damage was noted as the tornado approached McCamey Road.
April 2025Tornado (EF0)Kirbytown-The tornado then proceeded into wooded area before reaching the Tennessee River-Lake Guntersville once again.
April 2025Tornado (EF1)Kirbytown-A tornado developed in the waterway west of Holiday Shores Drive in Marshall County. The first-observed damage was a swath of softwood trees along the shore. Here, the|trees were snapped and uprooted. Just north of the trees, a single boat-slip house was destroyed. Further inland, numerous uprooted and snapped softwood trees were also|surveyed having fallen on a few homes.

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Preston2.7 miles21
Breezeway Bay3.2 miles21
Mid (historical)3.3 miles23
Tanglewood3.7 miles23
Pendergrass (historical)3.9 miles22
Five Points4.7 miles23
Oak Grove5.0 miles21
Glen Haven5.1 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156564. 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.