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Lasca, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sweet Water census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36784. The Survey maps it on the Nanafalia quadrangle. It stands 223 feet above sea level.

Lasca within Marengo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

50 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Lasca between 1994 and 2019, burning about 744 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning16
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
5 September 2010Debris and open burning29 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190903-4
28 September 2019Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190928-6
28 September 2004Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning5.9 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2006Natural80 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190816-3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lasca in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2016: 2 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 2016HailLasca-no account filed
March 2007HailLasca-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marengo 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
Hotamville1.9 miles8
McNeiders (historical)2.8 miles12
Nicholsville3.0 miles10
Putnam3.9 miles8
Hoboken4.4 miles10
Hornsboro (historical)4.7 miles8
Exmoor5.2 miles10
Coxheath5.5 miles10

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 LascaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6492828The 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 121403. 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.