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Nadawah, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Beatrice census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36425. It stands on Galley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nadawah quadrangle.

Nadawah within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

53 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Nadawah between 1994 and 2020, burning about 552 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
20 September 2007Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190912-14
31 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140828-002
17 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined168 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190817-3
22 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 2000Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2019Natural22 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190701-6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nadawah in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 2 hail, 1 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
January 2017Thunderstorm WindNadawah$45,000A roof was blown off of a trailer and a house. 2 barns and a shed were destroyed. Numerous trees were blown down.
May 1998HailNadawah-Dime hail was reported near Nadawah.
May 2001HailNadawah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Turkestan (historical)2.7 miles7
Chestnut3.2 miles7
Buena Vista4.3 miles7
Pineville5.0 miles9
Beatrice5.8 miles9
Riley6.5 miles9
Turnbull7.2 miles9
Natchez7.6 miles7

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.

Wikidata item Q122560788The 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 156764. 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.