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Muscadine, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fruithurst census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36269. It stands on Muscadine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fruithurst quadrangle. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Muscadine within Cleburne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

899 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 899 fires within 5 miles of Muscadine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,092 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 598 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/incendiarism598
Debris and open burning222
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Recreation and ceremony18
Equipment and vehicle use12
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
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 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160909-5
8 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190908-8
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2016Arson/incendiarism9.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-HARALSON-006
7 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-HARALSON-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cleburne 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 Muscadine: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. 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
Brown ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Cleburne County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Muscadine in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindMuscadine-A tree was downed at Highway 78 and County Road 49, and another tree was downed on County Road 49 near Interstate 20.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMuscadine-Several trees uprooted along County Road 49.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindMuscadine-Powerlines were downed just north of Muscadine.

Every storm recorded in Cleburne 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
Fruithurst2.5 miles15
Lebanon3.7 miles15
Bethel4.5 miles16
Plainview4.8 miles15
Coldwater5.0 miles16
Abernathy5.9 miles15
Mount Pleasant6.5 miles17
Piney Woods6.5 miles16

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 MuscadineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14679315The 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 152573. 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.