BlockLittle Nashville, Alabama
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Princeton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35774. It stands on Guess Creek. The Survey maps it on the Princeton quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1888 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1936 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Little Nashville between 1996 and 2019, burning about 141 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 9.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 April 1996 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | NOR-20140330-001 |
| 3 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | 63 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 February 2015 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | NOR-20150207-008 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Nashville in 1 storm report in 2009: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Nashville | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds associated with a gust front knocked a large tree down along County Road 20 in the Paint Rock Valley. Time estimated by radar. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trenton | 1.2 miles | 25 | |
| Pierceton (historical) | 2.5 miles | 21 | |
| Hollytree | 3.4 miles | 23 | |
| Letcher | 3.7 miles | 22 | |
| Wininger | 3.9 miles | 21 | |
| Garth | 4.3 miles | 25 | |
| Lim Rock | 6.0 miles | 21 | |
| Padgett (historical) | 6.1 miles | 23 |
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 Q122557635 | The 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 156615. 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.