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Logan, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fort Deposit census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36032. The Survey maps it on the Danielsville quadrangle.

Logan within Lowndes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

97 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Logan between 1994 and 2020, burning about 594 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use28
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20130908-001
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-14
28 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burning8.3 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190922-6
19 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Logan: 5 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. 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
Sandy Ridge Mine & MillClayProducer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lowndes County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Logan in 1 storm report in 2023: 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLogan-Several trees uprooted along County Road 4 west of Panola.

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
Ellis Crossroads2.1 miles7
Flatwoods3.2 miles7
Sandy Ridge3.4 miles11
Fort Deposit4.7 miles8
Calhoun5.3 miles9
Letohatchee9.9 miles11
Lum10.1 miles9
Clover Hill11.2 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 121962. 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.