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Posey Mill, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Phil Campbell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35565. It stands on Cat Den Branch. The Survey maps it on the Kinlock Spring quadrangle.

Posey Mill within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Posey Mill between 1995 and 2019, burning about 859 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 24 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
Arson/incendiarism24
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2001Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Debris and open burning1.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2016Debris and open burning65 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160912-4
30 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 1995Arson/incendiarism10 acresNational Forests in AlabamaMACEDONIA
18 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Posey Mill in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 2 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
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPosey Mill-Trees were knocked down along Highway 243.
March 2012HailPosey Mill-Penny sized hail was reported.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindPosey Mill-Damaging straight-line winds knocked down multiple trees along County Road 93.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Orange2.8 miles12
Carroll Crossroads2.9 miles12
Union3.7 miles14
Trapptown3.8 miles12
Oak Grove6.1 miles14
Phil Campbell6.8 miles14
Churntown7.0 miles14
Shady Grove7.9 miles14

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 Q122568801The 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 160437. 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.