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Pea Ridge, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Montevallo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35115. It stands on Pea Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Pea Ridge quadrangle. 841 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Pea Ridge within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

227 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Pea Ridge between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,029 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 122 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
Arson/incendiarism122
Debris and open burning63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2003Arson/incendiarism24 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning60 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pea Ridge: 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
She 5 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Maylene Quarry No. 4Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Montevallo QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pea Ridge in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 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
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Pea Ridge$11,000A tornado initially touched down in northeastern Bibb County, near the community of Marvel and tracked northeast into western Shelby County. The tornado tracked north of CR 54 where it caused significant tree damage. Damage was consistent with winds of 105 mph and an EF1 rating. The tornado lifted in a field near Pea Ridge, along CR 10.

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Sawmill Town2.4 miles18
Dogwood2.9 miles19
Anita3.1 miles18
Gurnee3.3 miles18
Ryan3.4 miles19
Underwood3.5 miles19
Gurnee Junction3.7 miles18
Aden3.7 miles18

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 Pea RidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17108833The 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 1989120. 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.