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Lathamville, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Crossville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35962. It stands on Chastain Creek. The Survey maps it on the Painter quadrangle.

Lathamville within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

91 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Lathamville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 414 acres in total. None 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism16
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160908-3
7 September 2016Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160907-7
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20140930-002
28 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190928-8
28 September 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-21
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-18
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150923-001
18 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb 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 Lathamville: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. 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
C W Chumley PropertyManganesePast Producer1951
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lathamville in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2020: 3 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 WindLathamville$1,000A tree was knocked down onto power lines and a residence on CR 8.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindLathamville-Several trees were knocked down and a trampoline was displaced in Lathamville.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindLathamville-A tree was knocked down onto a house. Side paneling of a barn was torn back.

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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
Crossville2.3 miles21
Kilpatrick2.3 miles22
Rodentown2.8 miles22
Oak Hill2.9 miles22
Rains (historical)3.0 miles22
Painter3.6 miles22
Arona4.4 miles22
Liberty4.5 miles22

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 Q122598394The 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 151998. 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.