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McCullough, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the McCullough-Huxford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36502. The Survey maps it on the McCullough quadrangle.

McCullough within Escambia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

146 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of McCullough between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,933 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 47 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/incendiarism47
Debris and open burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
3 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140903-001
28 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined29 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2000Smoking2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 1996Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of McCullough: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Freeman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gilmore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mcullough PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
South Alabama Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thomas & Cleveland Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
United Materials Corp. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Escambia County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McCullough in 2 storm reports in 1995: 1 hail, 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
February 1995Thunderstorm WindMcCullough$5,000A carport and tree limbs were blown down at a residence near McCullough.
February 1995HailMcCullough-Golf ball-size hail was reported near McCullough in the west part of Escambia County.

Every storm recorded in Escambia 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
Jack Springs1.4 miles11
Poarch3.4 miles11
Booneville4.7 miles11
Huxford5.0 miles10
Mount Gillis5.4 miles11
Martinville5.7 miles9
Freemanville6.6 miles11
Ewing Farms6.6 miles11

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 McCulloughAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q96392394The 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 122509. 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.