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.
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
- Rosemary House & Plantation Store, State Route 28 vicinity, Millers Ferryfederal building survey, 11 photographs
- Sellers-Henderson House & Smokehouse, State Route 28, Millers Ferryfederal building survey, 4 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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
- 1974 USGS Camden North quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
68 since 1995Regional 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/undetermined | 23 |
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 16 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 35 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160923-18 |
| 12 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 29 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20130911-001 |
| 5 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20140805-002 |
| 4 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190804-1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Millers Ferry | $10,000 | A weak tornado briefly touched down near Millers Ferry. The tornado blew down several trees and damaged a large storage building. |
| January 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millers Ferry | $5,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down near Millers Ferry. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millers Ferry | $3,000 | Winds estimated at 60 mph downed a tree and several limbs. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millers Ferry | - | High winds downed trees on Highway 28. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Millers Ferry | - | Dime size hail was reported in Millers Ferry. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midway | 2.3 miles | 9 | |
| Prairie Bluff | 3.1 miles | 9 | |
| Boykin | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Prairie | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Boiling Springs | 5.9 miles | 9 | |
| Bethel | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Rehoboth | 6.7 miles | 9 | |
| Rockwest | 6.9 miles | 8 |
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 Ferry | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6859353 | 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 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.




