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Le Grand, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hope Hull census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36105. The Survey maps it on the Snowdoun quadrangle. It stands 262 feet above sea level.

Le Grand within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

60 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Le Grand between 1994 and 2020, burning about 474 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
21 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.3 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190921-20
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSPRAGE JUNCTION ROAD, AL
13 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20170828-2
24 August 2000Smoking2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2000Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20170818-2
17 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionBUTLER MILL RD , AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Le Grand in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2015: 2 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 2015Thunderstorm WindLe Grand-Several trees uprooted along Hobbie Road.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindLe Grand-Multiple trees were snapped and uprooted just off of Highway 331 behind Sportsman Deer Processing.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Roxana1.4 miles11
Sprague2.0 miles11
Robinson Crossroads2.2 miles10
Hobbie Farm2.5 miles10
Pine Needles2.6 miles11
Tharin3.0 miles11
Red Level3.1 miles10
Canaan3.5 miles11

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 Le GrandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19986748The 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 152006. 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.