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Lizzieville, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Boligee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35443. The Survey maps it on the Boligee quadrangle.

Lizzieville within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

105 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Lizzieville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 684 acres in total. None started naturally. 37 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
Arson/incendiarism37
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Smoking13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined39 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150926-001
25 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Smoking3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1995Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190808-2
7 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lizzieville: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Swilley's Bend QuarrySilica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Bell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thetford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lizzieville in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
July 2008Thunderstorm WindLizzieville$1,000A few trees were blown down on CR-20, near Boligee.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Boligee2.2 miles9
Crawford Fork2.5 miles9
Allison2.8 miles15
Five Points4.2 miles13
Fowler4.4 miles13
Miller5.8 miles13
Hycutt5.9 miles13
New Mount Hebron6.1 miles9

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 Q122555114The 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 121933. 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.