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Lawrenceville, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Abbeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36310. The Survey maps it on the Lawrenceville quadrangle. It stands 528 feet above sea level.

Lawrenceville within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

70 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Lawrenceville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 483 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Smoking1
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
3 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.3 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190929-13
24 September 1996Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190923-22
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190921-25
21 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190918-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 99 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 99 workings within 5 miles of Lawrenceville: 64 occurrences, 25 past producers, 5 prospects, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Water, Free, Clay, Limestone, General. 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
Barbour County Mines Pit 2Fire Clay (Refractory), AluminumProducer
Henry County PitLimestone, GeneralProducer
Barbour County MineClayProducer
Mathison MineClayProducer
LynnAluminum, Water, FreePast Producer1942
Mathison 1Aluminum, Water, FreePast ProducerSurface
Mathison 2Aluminum, Water, FreePast Producer1942
Wilson 6Aluminum, Water, FreePast ProducerSurface
B E Kelly Deposit AAluminumOccurrence
B E Kelly Deposit BAluminumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawrenceville in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
January 2023Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$10,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across the northern portions of Henry County with one home with structural damage.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$3,000Trees were blown and blocked County Road 29. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$2,000Scattered trees and power lines were blown down around the area.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$1,000A tree was blown down on County Road 54. Monetary damage was estimated.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$1,000A tree was blown down along County Road 119. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$1,000Several downed trees west of U.S. Highway 431 reported by the Henry County EMA.
January 2019Tornado (EF0)Lawrenceville-An EF0 tornado with max winds of 85 mph briefly touched down about 1.5 miles north of Abbeville. A semi was blown off the road with no injuries, and tree damage occurred.
May 1998HailLawrenceville-Dime sized hail reported 10 miles northeast of Abbeville (5 miles east of Lawrenceville) along State Highway 95.

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Scottsboro Crossroads4.2 miles8
Graball4.9 miles9
Edwin5.6 miles8
Abbeville6.0 miles9
Screamer6.8 miles8
Otho7.7 miles8
Coates7.9 miles8
Wills Crossroads8.5 miles8

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 LawrencevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21196461The 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 121437. 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.