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Rabbittown, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Choccolocco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36272. It stands on Rock House Branch. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville East quadrangle.

Rabbittown within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Rabbittown between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,213 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 47 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/incendiarism47
Debris and open burning38
Recreation and ceremony16
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
6 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Arson/incendiarism82 acresNational Forests in Alabamanot named
24 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20150924-003
22 September 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2019Natural2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190913-10
1 September 1994Recreation and ceremony1.0 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 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Rabbittown: 11 unknowns, 8 occurrences, 5 prospects, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Kaolin, Cobalt, Nickel. 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
Burke EstateCobalt, NickelOccurrence
Burke EstateCobalt, NickelOccurrence
Coleman PropertyManganesePast Producer1930
Horace Davis ProspectIron, ManganesePast Producer1949
Alabama Mineral Land Co. ProspectAluminum, KaolinProspect
Dothard ProspectAluminum, KaolinProspect
Boozer ProspectAluminumProspect
Borden ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Love ProspectAluminumProspect
Mcclellan ProspectAluminumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rabbittown in 1 storm report in 2014: 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRabbittown-Several trees were uprooted and one building destroyed near the intersection of Highway 9 and Old Alabama 9.

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
Jenkins2.0 miles18
Burns2.3 miles16
Holley Crossroads2.5 miles18
Nances Creek2.7 miles18
Hallingworth2.9 miles18
Hollingsworth2.9 miles18
Abernathy (historical)4.4 miles16
Midway (historical)5.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 160463. 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.