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Morvin, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Coffeeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36784. It stands on Perry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Morvin quadrangle.

Morvin within Clarke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

36 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Morvin between 1994 and 2019, burning about 378 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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 2010Debris and open burning29 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190903-4
28 September 2004Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burning11 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning5.9 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190816-3
10 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morvin in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2018Flash FloodMorvin$25,000Buxton Chapel Road closed due to washout from flooding.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindMorvin$5,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed several trees on Campbells Landing Road.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindMorvin$4,000High winds blew several trees down near the intersection of County Road 44 and State Highway 69.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMorvin$4,000High winds blew trees down along State Highway 69 near Morvin.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindMorvin-High winds downed trees on Highway 69 near MM 39.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindMorvin-High winds downed multiple trees along Highway 69 near Campbells landing Road.
March 1998HailMorvin-Dime size hail was reported near Morvin.

Every storm recorded in Clarke 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
Failetown4.2 miles12
Campbell4.3 miles8
Woods Bluff5.0 miles12
Rock Springs5.3 miles12
Opine6.4 miles8
Smyer6.6 miles12
Bashi7.1 miles8
Cunningham7.3 miles12

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 MorvinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6915182The 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 156739. 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.