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Oaky Streak, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Georgiana-McKenzie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36037. The Survey maps it on the Industry quadrangle.

Oaky Streak within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

66 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Oaky Streak between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,493 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 24 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
Arson/incendiarism24
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
10 September 2003Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2011Natural46 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCOOKS BRIDGE ROAD, AL
22 August 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 2019Debris and open burning30 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190728-1
30 June 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 June 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 May 2011Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission5016 WESLEY CHAPEL ROAD, AL
27 May 2002Arson/incendiarism1.7 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oaky Streak in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2003: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
March 2001Thunderstorm WindOaky Streak$50,000High winds from a line of thunderstorms that had moved out of Covington county, blew down several hundred mature pine trees. The damage was along County Road 59 south of Oaky Streak. The "Bow Echo" that caused the high winds then weakened as it moved east and northeast.
May 2003HailOaky Streak-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Industry3.6 miles7
Shell5.5 miles8
Pigeon Creek6.0 miles7
Rhodes7.3 miles8
Sardis7.4 miles7
Avant8.4 miles8
Brushy Creek8.8 miles9
McKenzie8.9 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 Q122546825The 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 156820. 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.

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.