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Milltown, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Milltown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36274. It stands on Williams Creek. The Survey maps it on the Milltown quadrangle. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Milltown within Chambers 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

107 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Milltown between 1994 and 2020, burning about 890 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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 burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism16
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2

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
9 September 1998Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-12
26 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 237, AL
20 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2011Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission327 CR 861, AL
16 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Milltown: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Milltown PlutonStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerPlagioclase, Quartz

Every working recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milltown in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2005: 2 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 2005Tornado (F1)Milltown$3,000no account filed
March 2003HailMilltown-Quarter size hail was observed in Milltown.
May 2001HailMilltown-Penny size hail fell in Milltown.

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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
Red Level2.5 miles11
Rock Fence2.8 miles11
Clackville3.0 miles11
Penton3.5 miles11
Shiloh3.6 miles11
Abanda4.0 miles11
Union Hill4.1 miles11
Foster Crossroads4.6 miles10

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 MilltownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058514The 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 152338. 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.