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Mountain Home, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Morris Chapel census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35650. It lies near Long Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Masterson Mill quadrangle.

Mountain Home within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

327 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 327 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Home between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,807 acres in total. None started naturally. 164 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
Arson/incendiarism164
Debris and open burning103
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony20
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
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
8 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160927-8
26 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2015Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150923-002
23 September 2004Arson/incendiarism17 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain Home in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMountain Home$5,000An outbuilding was blown across County Road 214 by thunderstorm winds, northeast of Moulton.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMountain Home$2,000Power lines and trees were knocked down in the 1700 block of CR 87. Time estimated by radar.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindMountain Home$2,000Power lines and poles were knocked down between mile markers 18 and 24 on Highway 33.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindMountain Home$1,000Trees were knocked down on CR 147. Time estimated by radar.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindMountain Home$1,000Power lines were knocked down at Highway 33 at CR 559.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindMountain Home-Multiple trees were knocked down along CR 249 at CR 250.
August 2013Flash FloodMountain Home-Around six inches of water was flowing across the road near the intersection of County Road 214 and Highway 33.
January 2012HailMountain Home-Hail up to penny size was reported.
April 2009HailMountain Home-Numerous reports of golf ball size hail fell in the Langtown community.
April 2009HailMountain Home-Nickel sized hail was reported near CR 249 and 250.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Letson Settlement1.4 miles13
Longtown1.7 miles13
Chalybeate Springs2.3 miles14
Masterson Mill3.0 miles13
Mount Moriah3.9 miles13
Harmony4.1 miles14
Pittsburg4.9 miles14
Wheeler5.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 155401. 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.