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Loango, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Andalusia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36474. The Survey maps it on the Loango quadrangle. It stands 315 feet above sea level.

Loango within Covington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

84 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Loango between 1994 and 2020, burning about 966 acres in total. 1 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 burning30
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-29
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionZELL READY RD, AL
23 September 1999Debris and open burning4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2000Natural6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Covington County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Loango: 4 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Covington County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loango in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
March 2011Thunderstorm WindLoango$2,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed a tree near intersection of Rosin Ridge Road and Knowels Drive.
May 2014Flash FloodLoango-Several roads flooded and closed in the River Falls and Red Level areas of western Covington county.

Every storm recorded in Covington 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
Fairfield5.4 miles8
Rhump5.5 miles8
Red Level5.7 miles8
River Falls6.0 miles8
Beck6.1 miles8
Montezuma (historical)6.6 miles8
Carolina8.9 miles8
Andalusia8.9 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 LoangoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058494The 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 121936. 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.