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Lattiwood, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Albertville-Boaz census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35950. The Survey maps it on the Guntersville quadrangle.

Lattiwood within Marshall 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

53 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Lattiwood between 1994 and 2019, burning about 392 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-25
26 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20140926-001
24 September 2005Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2011Arson/incendiarism11 acresAlabama Forestry Commission3106 CR 205, AL
19 August 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

4 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lattiwood in 4 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 3 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLattiwood$1,000Multiple trees were knocked down on Tupelo Drive.
April 2025HailLattiwood-Golf ball sized hail was reported at this location on Mount Olive Drive.
April 2025HailLattiwood-Two inch in diameter hail was reported by an observer on the MPING network.
April 2025HailLattiwood-Golfball size hail was reported at this location via MPING reporting system.

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
Rabbit Town1.5 miles22
Gregory (historical)1.8 miles22
High Point2.1 miles22
Street (historical)2.3 miles22
Mountain View2.3 miles22
Pleasant Grove2.9 miles22
Lindsay Lane3.1 miles22
White Oak3.1 miles23

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 Q122553093The 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 121413. 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.