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Omaha, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Woodland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36280. The Survey maps it on the Napoleon quadrangle.

Omaha within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

164 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Omaha between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,205 acres in total. None started naturally. 44 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 burning86
Arson/incendiarism44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
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 2010Debris and open burning9.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2019Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-19
3 September 2011Smoking1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HEARD-009
28 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1993Debris and open burning3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-10
14 September 1997Smoking2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph 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 Omaha: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sulfides. 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
Joshua Ballard ProspectGold, SulfidesOccurrenceGold, Pyrite
Joshua Ballard ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Omaha in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2009: 2 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
March 1999Thunderstorm WindOmaha$5,000Wind blew the roof off a barn and also off a chicken house in the Omaha Community.
February 2009HailOmaha-Reported in the Big Springs community.
February 2009HailOmaha-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Big Springs1.4 miles10
Waldrep2.5 miles10
Potash2.8 miles10
Napoleon3.0 miles10
Haywood4.2 miles10
Mount Pleasant4.4 miles10
Rocky Branch4.7 miles10
Wehadkee5.0 miles11

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 OmahaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65065432The 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 156838. 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.