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Marley Mill, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ozark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36360. The Survey maps it on the Ozark quadrangle.

Marley Mill within Dale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Marley Mill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 292 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
21 September 2005Smoking3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2010Smoking1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140829-001
18 July 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 June 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160625-4
23 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dale 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 Marley Mill: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Dal 1 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Dale County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marley Mill in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindMarley Mill$50,000Multiple trees were blown down with two reports of trees on houses.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindMarley Mill$3,000Trees were blown down and a fence was damaged. Monetary damage was estimated.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindMarley Mill$2,000Trees were blown down around Marley Mill. Monetary damage was estimated.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindMarley Mill-Lines were down in the Marley Mill area of CR36.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMarley Mill-Trees were blown down onto power lines in County Road 239.
April 2014FloodMarley Mill-A portion of Jernigan road was closed due to flooding from a prolonged period of moderate to heavy rainfall, combined with saturated conditions due to previous heavy rainfall earlier in the month.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMarley Mill-A few trees were down on State Highway 27 toward County Road 16.

Every storm recorded in Dale 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
Dillard1.7 miles8
Dill2.6 miles8
Barnes3.6 miles8
Ozark3.7 miles12
Pleasant Hill4.5 miles12
Beamon6.1 miles7
Rocky Head6.5 miles11
Mabson7.2 miles13

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 Q122592826The 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 122289. 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.