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Ophir, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Geraldine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35963. It stands on Laurel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crossville quadrangle.

Ophir within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

101 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Ophir between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,550 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 31 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 burning31
Arson/incendiarism31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use5
Fireworks2
Smoking1
Other causes1
Natural1

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
9 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190909-2
8 September 2002Debris and open burning42 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20180903-3
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190929-20
24 September 2019Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-22
23 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190918-21
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ophir in 1 storm report in 2012: 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindOphir$10,000A power pole was snapped and trees and power lines were downed along County Road 46 Trees were also downed along County Roads 52 and 164.

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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
Gilbert Crossroads0.5 miles21
Floy (historical)1.7 miles21
Fairview1.8 miles21
Wills (historical)2.4 miles21
Lakeview2.7 miles21
Skirum2.8 miles21
Geraldine3.0 miles22
Maynard3.6 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156839. 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.