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Millers Ferry, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Camden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36726. The Survey maps it on the Camden North quadrangle. It stands 131 feet above sea level.

Millers Ferry within Wilcox County

On record in Millers Ferry

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

68 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Millers Ferry between 1995 and 2020, burning about 502 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
8 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use16 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160923-18
12 September 2005Debris and open burning29 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20130911-001
5 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140805-002
4 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190804-1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilcox County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millers Ferry in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2003Tornado (F0)Millers Ferry$10,000A weak tornado briefly touched down near Millers Ferry. The tornado blew down several trees and damaged a large storage building.
January 2000Thunderstorm WindMillers Ferry$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down near Millers Ferry.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMillers Ferry$3,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed a tree and several limbs.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMillers Ferry-High winds downed trees on Highway 28.
May 1997HailMillers Ferry-Dime size hail was reported in Millers Ferry.

Every storm recorded in Wilcox 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
Midway2.3 miles9
Prairie Bluff3.1 miles9
Boykin4.8 miles9
Prairie5.4 miles9
Boiling Springs5.9 miles9
Bethel6.4 miles9
Rehoboth6.7 miles9
Rockwest6.9 miles8

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 Millers FerryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6859353The 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 122837. 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.