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Perryville, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the New Site census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36256. It stands on Poe Branch. The Survey maps it on the New Site quadrangle.

Perryville within Tallapoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

242 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Perryville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 3,263 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 94 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 burning100
Arson/incendiarism94
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2001Recreation and ceremony20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-3
24 September 2010Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tallapoosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Perryville: 10 past producers, 9 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sulfides, Titanium, Iron, Manganese. 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
Lowe MineGold, Iron, ManganesePast Producer1932, 1933
Robert Russell ProspectTitaniumOccurrence
Dutch Bend MineGold, SulfidesPast ProducerBarite, Chalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite
Mahan PitsGold, SulfidesOccurrenceGold
Chisolm ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Croft PitsGoldOccurrenceGold
Dutch Bend Ulrich Pits Romanoff MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Early Pits MineGoldPast ProducerGold
Germany Pits ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Goldville Pits ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold

Every working recorded in Tallapoosa County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perryville in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 2024HailPerryville-Quarter-size hail was reported near New Site.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindPerryville-Several trees uprooted along Highway 22 near the town of New Site.

Every storm recorded in Tallapoosa 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
Cowpens1.5 miles11
New Site1.8 miles11
Harmony (historical)1.8 miles11
Fosheeton2.1 miles11
Bethleham (historical)2.7 miles11
Hamlet (historical)3.4 miles11
Zana (historical)4.3 miles11
Goldville4.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 124627. 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.