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Octagon, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Linden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36748. It stands on Flat Branch. The Survey maps it on the Miller quadrangle.

Octagon within Marengo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

51 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Octagon between 1994 and 2020, burning about 597 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
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
8 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140920-001
16 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance187 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionGULF STATES RAILROAD FIRE
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission16467 HWY 43, AL
28 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Octagon in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2026: 1 hail, 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
January 2026Thunderstorm WindOctagon-Numerous trees were downed across southern Marengo County south of Linden.
July 2014HailOctagon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marengo 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
Calvary2.5 miles9
Williamsburg (historical)2.9 miles9
Miller3.7 miles9
Shiloh5.4 miles9
Hugo5.6 miles10
Rembert6.1 miles9
Moss (historical)6.2 miles9
Magnolia6.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156822. 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.