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Letohatchee, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hayneville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36047. The Survey maps it on the Letohatchee quadrangle. It stands 322 feet above sea level.

Letohatchee within Lowndes 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

84 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Letohatchee between 1994 and 2020, burning about 656 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning26
Equipment and vehicle use22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
6 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionM.M. 155 SOUTH BD. OFF I-65, AL
26 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined78 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-19
20 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-23
7 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20150807-001
4 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1998Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Letohatchee in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 1 tornado, 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
September 1998Tornado (F0)Letohatchee$45,000A tornado moved northwest along CR 97 from Letohatchee to Hayneville. Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down, one mobile home was totally destroyed, and several others sustained minor damage.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLetohatchee-Multiple trees uprooted in the town of Letohatchee.

Every storm recorded in Lowndes 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
Steep Creek1.7 miles11
Tyson4.7 miles11
Hayneville6.3 miles9
Calhoun6.3 miles9
Sandy Ridge7.5 miles11
Beechwood9.0 miles9
Lum9.8 miles9
Logan9.9 miles7

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 LetohatcheeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3710670The 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 121509. 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.