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Perryville, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Sprott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36701. The Survey maps it on the Summerfield quadrangle. It stands 394 feet above sea level.

Perryville within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

55 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Perryville between 1994 and 2018, burning about 736 acres in total. 2 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
4 September 2006Smoking6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1995Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaVOLUNTEER
14 September 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150914-001
12 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140912-001
29 August 2000Natural12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20170824-1
19 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perryville in 1 storm report in 2009: 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
September 2009Flash FloodPerryville-Overflow of Oakmulgee Creek caused road closures near the intersection of AL-219 and CR-64, east of the Sprott community.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Osborn4.9 miles12
Radford4.9 miles12
Oak Grove (historical)5.7 miles13
Suttle6.6 miles12
Panhandle6.7 miles12
Sprott7.0 miles12
Cleveland Mills7.5 miles12
Augustin7.6 miles13

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 PerryvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21196537The 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 160364. 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.