BlockMathews, Alabama
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Pike Road census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36052. It stands on McDowell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Meigs quadrangle. It stands 259 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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 Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mount Meigs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Mount Meigs SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Mount Meigs quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
20 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Mathews between 1995 and 2018, burning about 209 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160927-4 |
| 14 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | ECR-20120826-001 |
| 22 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 August 1995 | Smoking | 30 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 June 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 April 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | CO.ROAD #7 HIGHLOG ROAD, AL |
| 8 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mathews in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 1 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Hail | Mathews | $3,000 | Golfball size hail was reported just south of Mathews and across eastern Montgomery County along the Bullock County line. |
| February 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Mathews | - | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northeastern Montgomery County and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF-0 tornado. Winds were estimated to be around 80 mph. ||The tornado first touched down just south of Lawson Road, where it toppled 2 trees. It then proceeded northeast and paralleled Lawson Road. As the tornado approached Flowers Road, additional damage occurred to a metal building, where a portion of the roof and side panels were removed. Here, the tornado was at its strongest point with winds estimated at 80 mph. Roughly 300 yards past Flowers Road, additional 80 mph winds associated with the tornado collapsed another outbuilding. The tornado continued northeast, and additional large limbs were down until the tornado lifted before reaching Dani Lane. |
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.
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 Mathews | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14679286 | 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 2747836. 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.