Meltonsville, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Town Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35976. It stands on Minky Creek. The Survey maps it on the Columbus City quadrangle.

Meltonsville within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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.

1885 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1888 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1936 USGS Columbus City quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Columbus City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1949 USGS Columbus City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

81 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Meltonsville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,307 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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	31
Arson/incendiarism	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Other causes	1
Smoking	1
Natural	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
9 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160907-2
6 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160929-13

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meltonsville in 5 storm reports between 2012 and 2026: 5 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Meltonsville	$3,000	Trees were blown down in Town Creek on the peninsula north of Guntersville State Park.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Meltonsville	$1,000	A tree was knocked down in the roadway.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Meltonsville	$200	A tree was knocked down on Armstrong Road.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Meltonsville	$200	A tree was knocked down.
April 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Meltonsville	-	A narrow path of wind damage was surveyed at the Little Mountain Marina northeast of Guntersville. The path begins at the lake shore where a tree was uprooted. Marina buildings suffered minor damage; several windows were broken and some roofing was torn off. Several tree branches were broken and small tree trunks (all 6 inches in diameter or less) were snapped, and a flagpole and a TV antenna were bent. The final \|damage of note occurred near Murphy Hill Road, where two isolated pine trees were snapped in a larger grove of pine trees.\|\|Witnesses reported seeing a waterspout without water form over Lake Guntersville and move ashore, causing the damage. Another witness noted that the waterspout formed along the cold front. All of the eyewitness accounts note that it occurred \|without any rain.

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Five Points	1.1 miles	23
Mid (historical)	2.5 miles	23
Columbus City	2.9 miles	23
Poplar Springs	3.1 miles	23
Little New York	3.3 miles	23
Glen Haven	3.6 miles	23
Tanglewood	3.9 miles	23
Henryville	3.9 miles	24

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 Q122598208

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 156699. 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.