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Patsburg, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Luverne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36049. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Petrey quadrangle.

Patsburg within Crenshaw 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

94 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Patsburg between 1994 and 2020, burning about 403 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
5 September 2017Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20170905-1
27 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2007Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20130911-003
11 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190730-5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crenshaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Patsburg: 20 unknowns, 6 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. 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
Cre 2 Clay ProspectClayProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Crenshaw County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Patsburg in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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
September 1998Tornado (F1)Patsburg$100,000A tornado briefly touched down near the community of Patsburg. Two homes had major damage and a business was destroyed. Trees and power lines were also blown down. Several horses were also injured.
January 2002Thunderstorm WindPatsburg$10,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines near Patsburg. Tin siding was also blown from an outbuilding.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPatsburg$8,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Patsburg.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindPatsburg-A home was damaged from a fallen tree.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindPatsburg-Severe thunderstorms downed multiple trees along Petrey Highway.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindPatsburg-Numerous trees were downed in the Petrey and Patsburg communities due to a severe thunderstorm.
December 2012Tornado (EF0)Patsburg-The tornado briefly touched down along Live Oak|Road in Patsburg. Near the intersection of Sims Road...a large|pine tree was snapped and car windows were blown out in two|vehicles. Metal roofing was peeled off a small vacant metal|building and a home sustained significant roof damage. Video|and eyewitness accounts confirm the brief touchdown.

Every storm recorded in Crenshaw 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
Live Oak1.8 miles7
Joquin3.4 miles7
Vernledge3.6 miles7
Vidette4.1 miles8
Petrey4.4 miles7
Fullers Crossroads4.9 miles7
Luverne5.2 miles7
Social Town5.7 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 Q122562383The 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 124485. 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.