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Natis, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Lynn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35578. The Survey maps it on the Poplar Springs quadrangle.

Natis within Winston 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

187 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Natis between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,980 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 98 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/incendiarism98
Debris and open burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Natural2
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
8 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2000Natural1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.7 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaPINETUCKEY
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-11
3 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1997Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2020Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200921-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winston County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Natis in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindNatis$25,000Thirty to forty pine trees were uprooted and fell onto power lines along AL-195.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindNatis-Several trees uprooted along Highway 195.
June 2014HailNatis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winston 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
Poplar Springs1.9 miles11
Kaeiser Bottoms (historical)2.6 miles11
Bickford (historical)3.0 miles11
Ashbank3.8 miles11
Tolen Hill (historical)4.2 miles11
Black Pond4.3 miles11
Curtis Crossroads4.5 miles11
Black Swamp (historical)5.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 160213. 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.