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.
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
- General Robert Lee Bullard House, U.S. Route 431 (State Route 37), Oak Boweryfederal building survey, 4 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1907 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:125000
- 1909 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Moorefield quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
58 since 1994Regional 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/undetermined | 23 |
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 11 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190920-29 |
| 10 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160910-24 |
| 8 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 August 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | CO.RD 290, AL |
| 30 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160730-1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce Priester Prospect | Titanium | Occurrence | ||
| Rippatoe Placer | Gold | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2010Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Bowery | $2,000 | A few trees were blown down on CR-23, northwest of Cusseta. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Danway | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Sturkie | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Tuckersburg | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Liberty Crossroads | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Boyds | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Moorefield | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| New Harmony | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Jones Mill | 6.5 miles | 12 |
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 Bowery | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7073434 | The 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.






