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Rabbit Town, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Guntersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35950. It stands on Little Drum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Guntersville quadrangle.

Rabbit Town within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

44 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Rabbit Town between 1994 and 2019, burning about 249 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1

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
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2011Arson/incendiarism11 acresAlabama Forestry Commission3106 CR 205, AL
19 August 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 July 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 June 2011Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission514 SWITCH LANE RD, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rabbit Town in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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 2023Thunderstorm WindRabbit Town$500A tree was knocked down onto Red Barn Road at Highway 205. Time estimated by radar.
May 2025HailRabbit Town-Golf ball size hail was reported at a Lowe's store in the Guntersville area.
February 2019FloodRabbit Town-Red Barn Road between Hwy 205 and Old Solitude Road was closed due to water of an unknown depth over the road.
January 2015Thunderstorm WindRabbit Town-The University of Alabama in Huntsville performed a storm survey depicting a narrow swath with a path length of around 6 miles. Minor to moderate damage occurred along the swath in the city of Albertville of Marshall County. Damage included numerous snapped and uprooted trees, sign damage, and roof damage. Also, a couple of fences were blown down.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindRabbit Town-The Municipal Utilities Board reported that a hard hit section of the city of Albertville was at Alabama Highway 205 and Rabbittown Road where many trees and power lines were knocked down. A tree fell into a house on Lexington Street. Power poles were snapped on Edmundson Street between Solitude Road and Highway 205. The Albertville Recreation Center sustained extensive damage where a scoreboard was blown down on a baseball field and a dugout roof was ripped off. Fencing was damaged and trees were blown down on the walking track.

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Lattiwood1.5 miles22
Gregory (historical)2.0 miles22
Mountain View2.7 miles22
Albertville2.8 miles24
High Point2.8 miles22
Lane2.8 miles24
White Oak2.8 miles23
Minorville (historical)3.3 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 125396. 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.