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Manila, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Walker Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36545. The Survey maps it on the Suggsville quadrangle.

Manila within Clarke 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

103 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Manila between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,284 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 39 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/incendiarism39
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
4 September 2002Smoking1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140919-001
11 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 19, AL
27 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20130827-001
23 August 1999Natural4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2020Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200817-3
3 July 2016Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160703-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke 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 Manila: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Suggsville PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clarke County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manila in 1 storm report in 2017: 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 2017Thunderstorm WindManila$5,000Winds estimated at 70 mph caused roof damage to a home on Play Lane.

Every storm recorded in Clarke 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
Alma3.5 miles12
Walker Springs4.2 miles8
Gainestown4.6 miles7
Suggsville5.8 miles7
Barlow Bend6.0 miles7
Rockville8.8 miles12
Union8.9 miles8
Choctaw Bluff9.0 miles12

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 Q2160661The 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 156651. 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.