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Peets Corner, Alabama

22 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 35613. It stands on Martin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tanner quadrangle.

Peets Corner within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Peets Corner between 1994 and 2019, burning about 231 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
21 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
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
22 August 2000Debris 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

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peets Corner in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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
May 2025HailPeets Corner-Hail with a diameter of 2 inches was reported via mPING.
December 2015FloodPeets Corner-Intersection of Mooresville Road and Brownsferry Road flooded and impassable from heavy rainfall.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindPeets Corner-Multiple trees were knocked down along Browns Ferry Road near the four way stop at Mooresville Road.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindPeets Corner-Trees were knocked down and damage occurred to outbuilding near Browns Ferry Road and Gray 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
Salem Corner2.0 miles22
French Mill2.5 miles22
Parker3.5 miles25
Oakland3.7 miles25
Country Village3.8 miles22
Indian Trace3.9 miles22
Tanner Crossroads4.1 miles22
Winslow4.2 miles22

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 Q122592086The 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 156868. 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.