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Loree, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Evergreen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36401. The Survey maps it on the Belleville quadrangle.

Loree within Conecuh 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

149 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Loree between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,922 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 34 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 burning63
Arson/incendiarism34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural3
Other causes1

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
27 September 2008Debris and open burning34 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined55 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190923-9
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined302 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190917-11

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conecuh County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Loree: 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Con 5 Clay ProspectClayProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Conecuh County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loree in 1 storm report in 2021: 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
April 2021Thunderstorm WindLoree-High winds downed a large tree on CR99 near Loree Road.

Every storm recorded in Conecuh 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
Stokes0.7 miles7
Brantley Crossing1.7 miles7
Nichburg2.5 miles8
Belleville4.1 miles7
Bookers Mill4.1 miles8
China4.6 miles8
Bermuda5.2 miles8
Fairnelson5.3 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156629. 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.