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Loveless, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Payne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35967. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Portersville quadrangle. It stands 1,312 feet above sea level.

Loveless within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

145 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Loveless between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,090 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 49 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/incendiarism49
Debris and open burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160908-10
6 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-14
4 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160904-1
4 September 2002Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO. RD. 65, AL
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20140924-001
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200922-2
20 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Loveless: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. 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
Old Portersville MinesIronPast ProducerHematite
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed, Red Mt. AreaIronPast ProducerHematite

Every working recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

7 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loveless in 7 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindLoveless$1,000A tree was knocked down at 1147 CR 79. Time estimated by radar.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLoveless$1,000A tree was knocked down on CR 176 behind the Word of Faith Church. Time was estimated from radar data.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLoveless$1,000Powerlines were knocked down at 4542 CR 83.
May 2025Tornado (EF1)Loveless-A tornado tracked about 1/3 of a mile just east of County Road (CR) 83. At this location, one large tree was uprooted and a 3 to 5 inch branch was broken off of a tree 10 yards away. The tornado quickly moved northeast and strengthened to EF-1 intensity as it approached Highway 176. Near one residence, three healthy and large pine trees were partially uprooted and another was broken off in a different direction and fell onto a mobile home nearby. At this location, the snapped tree heavily damaged the roof of the residence and destroyed a carport. Just one house further northeast, a camper trailer (weighing approximately 5000 lb) was lifted off its foundation and dragged 15 yards, before being flipped on its side. Peak winds of 100 mph were reached at this location. Additional minor tree limbs were seen snapped in the distance.
December 2021Tornado (EF1)Loveless-A tornado briefly touched down in Mt Vernon, Alabama in southern Dekalb County. It crossed County Road 83 just south of Lookout Mountain Parkway and moved through a mobile home park where several homes sustained roof damage and one mobile home was flipped. The tornado continued to the north-northeast snapping and uprooting trees and causing roof damage on a chicken house. The tornado continued on its north-northeasterly path uprooted a few more trees before lifting just north of County Road 32.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLoveless-A large tree was knocked down onto a home damaging two rooms in the Sand Rock community. Time was estimated by radar.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindLoveless-Numerous full grown pine trees were snapped off, blown down, and uprooted on CR 55 where Stapp Creek crosses the road.

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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
Pine Grove (historical)1.6 miles22
Mount Vernon2.2 miles22
Powell2.3 miles19
Tucker (historical)2.4 miles19
Dogtown2.8 miles19
Portersville3.1 miles22
Sigsbee3.2 miles19
Lickskillet3.8 miles19

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 LovelessAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6692180The 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 150356. 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.