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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.

Radford within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

84 since 1994

Regional 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 burning29
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190908-5
6 September 1995Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2006Natural129 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2006Smoking6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150914-001
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190913-14
12 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190912-13
12 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190912-16

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2016Flash FloodRadford-Several roads flooded and impassable across eastern Perry County. Roads flooded include County Road 30, County Road 64, and County Road 49.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Suttle3.8 miles12
Vilula4.6 miles9
Perryville4.9 miles13
Oak Grove (historical)5.6 miles13
Norman5.7 miles9
Sprott6.1 miles12
Hamburg6.2 miles9
Marion7.0 miles11

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 RadfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21196562The 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.