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Providence, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Vinemont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35179. It stands on Moody Branch. The Survey maps it on the Eva quadrangle.

Providence within Cullman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

80 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Providence between 1997 and 2019, burning about 427 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
7 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140924-002
23 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190922-7

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Providence in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindProvidence$25,000Lightning struck a barn east of Cullman setting it on fire. One house sustained roof and awning damage in the Providence community of extreme northeast Cullman County on County Road 1437. A chicken house in the same area also sustained roof damage.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindProvidence$1,000A tree was knocked down on CR 1435.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindProvidence$1,000Trees were knocked down at 5688 CR 1435. Time estimated by radar.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindProvidence$200A tree was knocked down on the road at the 1200 block of CR 1442.
February 2026FloodProvidence-Dispatch reported flooding along CR 1442. Depth of water unknown.
March 1995Thunderstorm WindProvidence-Several houses in Providence reported roof and structural damage.

Every storm recorded in Cullman 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
Dyers Crossroads1.7 miles19
Mount View1.9 miles17
Pleasant Ridge2.2 miles17
North Vinemont2.3 miles17
Enon2.6 miles17
Gold Ridge3.2 miles17
Vinemont3.6 miles19
Pleasant View3.6 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 153075. 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.