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Parker, Alabama

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mooresville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35756. It stands on Oakland Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Greenbrier quadrangle.

Parker within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Parker between 1994 and 2019, burning about 264 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined85 acresWheeler National Wildlife RefugeFM 97-8
21 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160914-10
12 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

5 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parker in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindParker$5,000Roof damage was reported near the intersection of Bowers Road and Powell Road.
August 2016Flash FloodParker-Water covering the road at the intersection of Hardiman and Segers Roads in Madison. Water depth unknown.
August 2016Flash FloodParker-Water covering the road at the intersection of Burgreen and Neyland Drive in Madison. Water depth unknown.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindParker-Several trees and power lines were knocked down between Tanner and Madison.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindParker-Thunderstorm winds snapped power pols along Bowers and Greenbrier Roads just south of Huntsville Browns Ferry Road.

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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
Oakland1.1 miles25
Burgreen Gin1.4 miles25
Country Acres2.9 miles21
Greenbrier3.4 miles25
Salem Corner3.5 miles22
Peets Corner3.5 miles22
Capshaw4.2 miles21
East Limestone4.7 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156859. 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.