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Lynntown, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Somerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35670. It stands on Six Mile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Center Grove quadrangle.

Lynntown within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

58 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Lynntown between 1993 and 2019, burning about 766 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 23 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/incendiarism23
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Natural1
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
20 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2018Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180915-4
14 September 1999Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission260 WATER TOWER ROAD, AL
19 August 2000Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2000Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160704-18

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan 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 Lynntown: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Plant No. 5 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lynntown in 1 storm report in 2016: 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
August 2016Thunderstorm WindLynntown-The survey concluded that microburst winds led to the damage reported. The swath of damage extended approximately 1 mile in width and 0.6 mile in length, mainly along and adjacent to Cotaco Florette Road and Fowler Cove Road. The survey team focused on two main areas: the northern extent of the swath on Dotson Road and the southern extent along Cotaco Florette Road. Along the southern extent, significant tree damage was observed with several hickory trees either snapped or uprooted with numerous large branches down. Debris was oriented west to west-southwest. Winds peaked at the southern portion of the damage swath with an estimated 76 mph.||Further north, the survey team observed a couple of Bradford Pear trees uprooted with numerous small and large branches knocked down, all oriented to the west. Winds on the northern end of the swath were estimated at 55 mph.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Florette1.0 miles20
Union2.5 miles20
Stringer2.7 miles20
Six Mile2.7 miles20
Woodland Mills3.1 miles20
Pence3.1 miles20
West Point3.5 miles20
Peach Grove (historical)3.5 miles20

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 Q122566661The 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 122127. 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.