Mantua, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mantua-West Greene census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35462. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mantua quadrangle. It stands 246 feet above sea level.

Mantua within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Mantua quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

46 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Mantua between 1996 and 2019, burning about 429 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning	18
Smoking	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
30 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170930-2
30 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Smoking	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20150803-001
3 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2000	Natural	41 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mantua in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2011: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2011	Tornado (EF2)	Mantua	$2,500,000	A tornado touched down in northern Greene County and moved northeast through southern Tuscaloosa and western Jefferson Counties, causing devastating damage consistent with a violent EF4 rating to portions of the city of Tuscaloosa and western suburbs of Birmingham, before it lifted northeast of downtown Birmingham. The tornado initially touched down just south of the intersection of CR 60 and CR 208 in Greene County, and moved northeast, crossing mostly rural areas and causing significant tree damage. One outbuilding was destroyed with the debris being swept away and pieces of farm equipment flipped over. This damage was consistent with an EF2 rating with winds of 125 mph. The tornado crossed into Tuscaloosa County just north of CR 60. This tornado was produced by a supercell thunderstorm that began in Newton County Mississippi at 13:54 pm CST, finally dissipating in Macon County, North Carolina at approximately 21:18 pm CST. This supercell spawned several strong to violent tornadoes along its long path.
May 2003	Hail	Mantua	$25,000	Penny size hail was reported in Mantua. Golf ball size hail was observed in and around the Knoxville area. The hail may have been larger in surrounding rural areas.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Mantua	$15,000	Trees were knocked down across the county as a squall line moved through the area.
March 2005	Hail	Mantua	-	Penny size hail was reported near Mantua. Larger hail may have occurred with this storm but fell in rural areas.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Snoddy	3.0 miles	10
Morrows Grove	3.5 miles	10
Union	4.6 miles	14
Lewiston	4.9 miles	11
Jena	6.9 miles	10
Knoxville	8.5 miles	14
Pleasant Ridge	8.6 miles	11
Clinton	10.2 miles	14

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 Mantua	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058506	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 156654. 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.