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Oak Bowery, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Waverly census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36862. The Survey maps it on the Moorefield quadrangle. It stands 839 feet above sea level.

Oak Bowery within Chambers County

On record in Oak Bowery

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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 Oak Bowery between 1994 and 2019, burning about 418 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2

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 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning11 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-29
10 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160910-24
8 August 2000Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCO.RD 290, AL
30 July 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160730-1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers 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 Oak Bowery: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Gold. 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
Bruce Priester ProspectTitaniumOccurrence
Rippatoe PlacerGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Bowery in 1 storm report in 2010: 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
May 2010Thunderstorm WindOak Bowery$2,000A few trees were blown down on CR-23, northwest of Cusseta.

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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
Danway3.2 miles12
Sturkie3.7 miles12
Tuckersburg3.7 miles14
Liberty Crossroads3.7 miles12
Boyds4.9 miles12
Moorefield5.2 miles12
New Harmony5.4 miles12
Jones Mill6.5 miles12

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 Oak BoweryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7073434The 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 152719. 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.