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North Elmore, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Elmore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36025. It stands on Cottonford Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elmore quadrangle.

North Elmore within Elmore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

263 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 263 fires within 5 miles of North Elmore between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,054 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 55 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 burning78
Arson/incendiarism55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Misuse of fire by a minor30
Equipment and vehicle use26
Recreation and ceremony22
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Smoking2
Natural2
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
6 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-15
18 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined132 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burning5.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of North Elmore: 12 producers, 1 past producer. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite. 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
Elmore PitSand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, KyaniteProducerPlacer
Dredge #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Elmore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Elmore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Elmore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Flatwood QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Flatwood Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
James PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Motley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Elmore County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Elmore in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2009LightningNorth Elmore1 hurtA female was struck by lightning on Bouldin Dam Road.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindNorth Elmore$5,500Several trees were blown down and a breezeway was damaged near Edgewood Academy between Elmore and Wetumpka.
August 2025Flash FloodNorth Elmore-Water was over the road along Highway 14 between Wetumpka and Elmore.

Every storm recorded in Elmore 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
Elmore1.2 miles17
Speigner2.3 miles17
Overton Heights3.6 miles17
Broadmoor3.6 miles17
Adkin Hill3.6 miles17
Grandview Pines3.9 miles17
Springfield4.0 miles17
Coosada4.1 miles20

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 Q122551950The 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 123992. 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.