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Perry Store, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Kinston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36453. It stands on Stanley Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Opp East quadrangle.

Perry Store within Coffee 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

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Perry Store between 1994 and 2020, burning about 233 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
18 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Debris and open burning4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2000Debris and open burning3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2012Natural6.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20120815-001
31 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission9485 MCCLOUD RD, AL
9 June 2000Arson/incendiarism2.1 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 May 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 May 2007Equipment and vehicle use12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Perry Store: 11 unknowns, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Alabama District #3IronOccurrence
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Coffee County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perry Store in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 2023Thunderstorm WindPerry Store-Trees were blown down east of Highway 189 near CR427.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindPerry Store-A tree was blown down on South Highway 189.
April 2014Flash FloodPerry Store-Heavy rain in a short amount of time led to County Road 427 being flooded and closed.

Every storm recorded in Coffee 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
Rhoades1.2 miles8
Alberton1.7 miles8
Brooklyn2.4 miles8
Ino3.4 miles8
Basin4.5 miles8
Kinston4.5 miles8
Holley Store5.0 miles8
Fairview6.6 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 Q122560439The 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 152874. 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.