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Nixburg, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Rockford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36026. The Survey maps it on the Equality quadrangle. 329 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 725 feet above sea level.

Nixburg within Coosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

84 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Nixburg between 1994 and 2020, burning about 654 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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 burning43
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2018Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180922-9
22 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180922-8
19 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coosa 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 Nixburg: 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Coosa Gibbsite ProspectAluminumProspect1960
USGS MR-60 Alabama No.4 ProspectFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Coosa County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nixburg in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 3 hail, 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
April 2009HailNixburg$20,000Hail up to the size of golf balls fell in the Nixburg community. A few vehicles suffered significant hail damage, and a few homes suffered roof damage from the hail.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindNixburg$3,000no account filed
March 2026Thunderstorm WindNixburg-Trees were downed along County Road 18 near County Road 14 and County Road 63 at Highway 9.
April 2007HailNixburg-no account filed
August 2002HailNixburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coosa 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
Cottage Grove2.0 miles14
Equality4.6 miles14
Hissop5.0 miles14
Pinthlocco (historical)5.4 miles14
Fishpond5.4 miles14
Ray5.7 miles14
Jon6.2 miles14
Pentonville6.2 miles14

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 NixburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18157895The 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 156795. 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.