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Marengo, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Dixons Mill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36736. It stands on Camp Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sweet Water quadrangle. It stands 180 feet above sea level.

Marengo within Marengo County

On record in Marengo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

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.

Photographs

8 of 35 photographs shown, 1936 to 1939

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Gaineswood, Demopolis, Marengo County, Alabama
Gaineswood, Demopolis, Marengo County, Alabama
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1939. Library of Congress
This Negro client of Dixon's Mill community, Marengo County, Alabama, had come to town for groceries and feed with his steer hitched to his homemade wagon. The cost of this wagon was effort only, it having wooden axles, wooden wheels and wooden pins
This Negro client of Dixon's Mill community, Marengo County, Alabama, had come to town for groceries and feed with his steer hitched to his homemade wagon. The cost of this wagon was effort only, it having wooden axles, wooden wheels and wooden pins
Evans, Walker, 1936. Library of Congress
Bluff Hall, Demopolis, Marengo County, Alabama
Bluff Hall, Demopolis, Marengo County, Alabama
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1939. Library of Congress
Lyon House, 102 South Main Street, Demopolis, Marengo County, AL
Lyon House, 102 South Main Street, Demopolis, Marengo County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Walton-Bruce House, State Highway 25, Dayton, Marengo County, AL
Walton-Bruce House, State Highway 25, Dayton, Marengo County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Old Marengo County Courthouse, Cahaba Avenue & Mobile Street, Linden, Marengo County, AL
Old Marengo County Courthouse, Cahaba Avenue & Mobile Street, Linden, Marengo County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Charles Brasfield Grant House, State Highway 28, Jefferson, Marengo County, AL
Charles Brasfield Grant House, State Highway 28, Jefferson, Marengo County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Magnolia Grove, State Highway 25, Dayton, Marengo County, AL
Magnolia Grove, State Highway 25, Dayton, Marengo County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Marengo County

Fires near this place

111 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Marengo between 1994 and 2019, burning about 759 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Debris and open burning41
Recreation and ceremony12
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
18 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190918-13
17 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-9
14 September 1997Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190912-12
30 August 1994Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marengo in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
January 2008Tornado (EF0)Marengo$100,000Four home suffered minor damage, and several trees were snapped off, near Amber Lane and AL-10, just west of Dixons Mill.

Every storm recorded in Marengo 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
Vangale1.3 miles10
Dixons Mills1.4 miles10
Doyle2.9 miles10
Exmoor3.2 miles10
Wayne3.4 miles10
Hoboken4.0 miles10
Sweet Water4.0 miles10
Clayhill4.4 miles10

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 MarengoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6758961The 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 122279. 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.