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Prices, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Jacksonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36272. The Survey maps it on the Piedmont NW quadrangle.

Prices within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

284 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 284 fires within 5 miles of Prices between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,358 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 137 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/incendiarism137
Debris and open burning75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony15
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-11
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarism165 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionDRY CREEK FIRE
4 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160904-4
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190903-6
29 September 2016Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-11
29 September 2000Natural20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Prices: 15 unknowns, 7 prospects, 6 occurrences, 4 past producers. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Kaolin. 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
Cowan ProspectManganese, IronProspect1949
Frame MineClayProducer
Industrial Filler Co. MineSilicaPast ProducerQuartz
Knighton DepositIron, ManganeseProspect1953
No NameIron, Barium-BaritePast ProducerResidual
Unnamed ProspectBarium-BariteOccurrence
Alabama Mineral Land Co. ProspectAluminum, KaolinProspect
Dothard ProspectAluminum, KaolinProspect
Ezzell ProspectManganeseProspect1949
Knighten DepositManganeseOccurrenceWad

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prices in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 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
July 2008Thunderstorm WindPrices$500Two trees were blown down at the intersection of Hollingsworth Road and AL-9, northeast of Jacksonvlle.
April 2021HailPrices-Quarter size hail reported along Highway 9.
March 2018HailPrices-Quarter size hail reported along Highway 21.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Midway (historical)0.6 miles16
Kearney (historical)0.7 miles16
Couch0.9 miles16
Maxwellborn1.3 miles16
Piedmont Springs1.5 miles16
Zuni (historical)1.7 miles16
Asberry2.6 miles16
Roy Webb2.7 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 160446. 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.