BlockLower Peach Tree, Alabama
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pine Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36751. It lies near Ohio Island (historical). The Survey maps it on the Lower Peach Tree quadrangle. It stands 190 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Lower Peach Tree quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
124 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Lower Peach Tree between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,171 acres in total. None started naturally. 51 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/incendiarism | 51 |
| Debris and open burning | 35 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.8 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1994 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190929-14 |
| 23 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.1 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20130920-002 |
| 13 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.1 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lower Peach Tree in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Peach Tree | - | High winds downed trees in several spots along CR35 (Old Line Rd) in Clarke County and along CR1 in Wilcox County. |
| December 2012 | Tornado (EF1) | Lower Peach Tree | - | The tornado moved northeast out of the Dickinson area of Clarke county, crossing the Wilcox county line a few miles southeast of County Road 1, snapping numerous pine trees along an 80 yard wide path. The tornado lifted just south of the railroad tracks west of the Coy community. |
| November 1997 | Hail | Lower Peach Tree | - | Golfball size hail was reported near Lower Peach Tree. |
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.
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 Lower Peach Tree | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6693702 | The 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 122080. 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.
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.