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Prairieville, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Newbern census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36742. The Survey maps it on the Casemore quadrangle. It stands 190 feet above sea level.

Prairieville within Hale County

On record in Prairieville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 4 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

38 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Prairieville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 308 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
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
8 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20130922-001
21 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2010Debris and open burning1.4 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20120706-003
5 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale 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 Prairieville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Tolar QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Hale County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prairieville in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2022HailPrairieville-Photos of large hail along Highway 80 near the town of Gallion.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindPrairieville-Several trees uprooted north of the town of Gallion.
October 2010HailPrairieville-Quarter size hail lasted 2-3 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Hale 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
Gallion1.5 miles11
Allenville2.2 miles11
Oak Grove2.6 miles12
Casemore4.9 miles12
Arcola5.0 miles12
Laneville5.3 miles9
Lock Five5.5 miles12
Cedarville7.2 miles12

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 PrairievilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3710314The 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 156931. 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.