Radford, Alabama
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Sprott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36701. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Suttle quadrangle. It stands 161 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Summerfield SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Suttle quadrangle1:24000
- 1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
84 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Radford between 1994 and 2019, burning about 674 acres in total. 5 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 burning | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190908-5 |
| 6 September 1995 | Smoking | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2006 | Natural | 129 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2006 | Smoking | 6.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20150914-001 |
| 13 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190913-14 |
| 12 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190912-13 |
| 12 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190912-16 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Radford in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2016 | Flash Flood | Radford | - | Several roads flooded and impassable across eastern Perry County. Roads flooded include County Road 30, County Road 64, and County Road 49. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suttle | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Vilula | 4.6 miles | 9 | |
| Perryville | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Oak Grove (historical) | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Norman | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Sprott | 6.1 miles | 12 | |
| Hamburg | 6.2 miles | 9 | |
| Marion | 7.0 miles | 11 |
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 Radford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q21196562 | The 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 153099. 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.







