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Lowry Mill, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Jack census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36346. It stands on Shoal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Victoria quadrangle.

Lowry Mill within Coffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

63 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Lowry Mill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 475 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20120927-001
21 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2020Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200805-2
30 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCO.RD.206, AL
3 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 201, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lowry Mill: 1 unknown. 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

Every working recorded in Coffee County

Storms near this place

9 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lowry Mill in 9 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 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
April 2020Tornado (EF0)Lowry Mill$50,000A dual pol tornadic debris signature was visible from EOX radar moving across portions of northern Coffee county. Damage occurred in the form of numerous snapped trees and roof damage. The tornado was rated EF0 with winds estimated near 80 mph.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindLowry Mill$15,000Significant roof damage occurred to a roof of a house off of CR220 near Victoria.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindLowry Mill-A few trees were blown down in the northern part of Coffee county.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindLowry Mill-Trees were blown down onto County Road 208.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindLowry Mill-A tree was blown down and blocked the roadway on County Road 215 near Victoria Cemetery.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindLowry Mill-A tree was down on CR-208.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindLowry Mill-A tree was down at 304 CR208.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLowry Mill-Several trees were blown down.
September 2011Heavy RainLowry Mill-A 72 hour rainfall total of 4.40 inches was reported at the LOWA1 Lowry Mill river gauge.

Every storm recorded in Coffee 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
Arcus1.8 miles11
Victoria2.4 miles11
Jack2.6 miles8
Shady Grove3.1 miles8
Wilkinstown4.9 miles11
Bluff Springs5.0 miles8
Mixson5.1 miles11
Chestnut Grove5.4 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122554755The 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 156633. 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.