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Perote, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Inverness census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36005. The Survey maps it on the Perote quadrangle. It stands 482 feet above sea level.

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Perote within Bullock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

102 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Perote between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,594 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism23
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2

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
6 September 2019Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-20
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined46 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190927-18
23 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190923-16
20 September 2019Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-2
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullock 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 Perote: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Pik 9 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Bullock County

Storms near this place

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perote in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 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
April 2005Tornado (F0)Perote$45,000National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed the damage along CR 14 between Blues Old Standand areas just south of Midway. It has been determined that the damage was caused by a tornado.The tornado has been rated an F0 with winds estimated around 70 miles an hour. The tornado toucheddown near Blues Old Stand around 754 AM CDT. The tornado traveled northeast for approximately 12.6miles before lifting about 2 miles south of Midway around 810 AM CDT. Numerous trees were snappedoff and uprooted along the tornado path. The crossed US 29, SR 239 and ended just before crossingSR 51. One commercial hunting lodge was damaged and one mobile home sustained roof damage. Begin: 31 59.22/85 43.16 End: 32 02.89/85 30.99
April 2005Thunderstorm WindPerote$20,000Right before the tornado touched down, a large swath of straight line wind damage occurred near theBlues Old Stand Community. One hundred or more large pine trees were snapped off 15 to 25 feet abovethe ground. The area of considerable tree damage was approximately two square miles.
March 2005HailPerote$11,000The left moving supercell that moved through Pike, Barbour, and Russell Counties threw hail out of its core across extreme southeastern Bullock County. The hail affected the Smuteye and Pickett communities but mainly fell in rural areas. The largest hail reported was golf ball size.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindPerote$5,000A few trees were blown down near the Blues Old Stand Community.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindPerote$3,000A farmer in the Corinth Community reported that trees were blown down onto power lines.
April 2002HailPerote$2,000Quarter size hail was reported near the Jamback community, southeast of Perote. Additional hail reports were received from the Perote area.
January 2009Thunderstorm WindPerote$1,000Several trees were blown down near the Perote Community.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindPerote$1,000Trees were blown down near Perote and one out-building was damaged.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindPerote-Several trees uprooted along County Road 8.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindPerote-Several trees uprooted along County Road 53.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindPerote-Numerous trees uprooted in the community of Perote.
December 2015Flash FloodPerote-Widespread flash flooding occurred over the southeast portions of Bullock County. Three to four inches of rainfall caused water to flow across roadways and creeks to rise above bank full. Several roads were closed, including a U.S. Highway 82 near the Barbour and Bullock county line. A sinkhole developed on Highway 29 south of the town of Perote, causing traffic to be re-routed.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindPerote-Several trees uprooted along County Road 8.
May 2014Tornado (EF0)Perote-A brief tornado, with maximum winds estimated to be 85 mph, touched down in southern Bullock county, approximately two miles west of the Perote community and just south of County Road 8, damaging several trees.
April 2003HailPerote-Penny size hail was reported along the Bullock and Pike County line west northwest of the Perote Community.

Every storm recorded in Bullock 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
Blues Old Stand2.6 miles7
Sellers Crossroads2.7 miles8
Jamback3.3 miles7
Smuteye3.6 miles7
Corinth4.0 miles8
Tanyard4.1 miles7
Omega4.7 miles8
Pickett4.7 miles7

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 PeroteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3709490The 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 152872. 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.