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Needmore, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Needmore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36081. It stands on Ross Branch. The Survey maps it on the Needmore quadrangle.

Needmore within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

58 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Needmore between 1994 and 2020, burning about 425 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1

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
11 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200808-5
3 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2000Natural1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 7718, AL
21 July 2000Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 2000Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Needmore: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Needmore in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2026: 2 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 2026Thunderstorm WindNeedmore-The roof was removed from a manufactured home on Gardner Bassett Rd.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindNeedmore-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Jonesville2.0 miles7
Pleasant Hill3.0 miles8
Lewis3.2 miles7
Harmony3.4 miles8
Meeksville3.6 miles8
Friendship3.7 miles8
Logton3.8 miles7
McClure Town4.1 miles8

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 NeedmoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q96395153The 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 152593. 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.