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Merry, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Mount Meigs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36064. The Survey maps it on the Mount Meigs quadrangle.

Merry within Montgomery County

On record in Merry

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

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

55 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Merry between 1994 and 2019, burning about 660 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
5 September 2002Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1200 BLOCK OF WARES FERRY ROAD, AL
3 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190911-6
3 August 1995Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2011Natural35 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1616 ALEXANDER RD, AL
26 August 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Merry: 9 producers, 1 past producer. 9 still produce. 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
Chapman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
J.M. Jordon Mining Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mount Meigs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mount Meigs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mount Meigs QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Mount Meigs QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Mt MeigisSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Waugh #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Waugh PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Waugh Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Merry in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 hail. 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
May 2009HailMerry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Timberlane0.8 miles12
Freeport1.1 miles12
Mount Meigs1.2 miles12
Foxwood Trace1.5 miles12
Ranchette Estates1.9 miles13
Foxwood2.4 miles13
Foxchase2.4 miles12
Eastwood Villa2.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 152304. 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.