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Nichburg, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Castleberry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36432. The Survey maps it on the Repton quadrangle.

Nichburg within Conecuh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

154 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Nichburg between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,988 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 35 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 burning56
Arson/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
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
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism22 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2008Debris and open burning34 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined55 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined302 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150918-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conecuh 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 Nichburg: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Con 2 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Con 5 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Conecuh County

Storms near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nichburg in 1 storm report in 2001: 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
February 2001Thunderstorm WindNichburg$5,000Trees were blown down by strong thunderstorms north of the community. Most of the downed trees were located between Pine Orchard and Ramah.

Every storm recorded in Conecuh 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
Brantley Crossing1.5 miles7
Stokes2.4 miles7
Loree2.5 miles7
Bermuda2.8 miles8
Belleville3.7 miles7
Burnt Corn5.2 miles7
Bookers Mill6.4 miles8
Fairnelson6.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122551981The 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 156793. 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.