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Peacock, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Grove Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36451. The Survey maps it on the Fulton West quadrangle.

Peacock within Clarke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

93 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Peacock between 1994 and 2019, burning about 414 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural7
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony2
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
8 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2005Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1995Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140918-001
17 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Peacock: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Hamilton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clarke County

Storms near this place

5 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peacock in 5 storm reports between 2020 and 2023: 5 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindPeacock-Clarke County EMA estimates 60-70 mph winds.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindPeacock-High winds downed trees along Floral Creek Road.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindPeacock-High winds damaged an awning at Clarke Prep School on Old Highway 43.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindPeacock-High winds downed a large tree and blocked Highway 43 at Bear Fork Road.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindPeacock-High winds from a thunderstorm downed trees on northbound lanes of Highway 43 just north of Clarke Prep School.

Every storm recorded in Clarke 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
Greenwood1.7 miles8
Fulton3.3 miles7
Grove Hill3.4 miles8
Dickinson3.4 miles7
Chilton4.1 miles8
Asbury4.7 miles7
Springfield5.3 miles8
Clarksville6.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156863. 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.