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Rash, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Stevenson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35772. It lies near Big Coon Valley. The Survey maps it on the Wannville quadrangle. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Rash within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Rash between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,407 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160923-10
18 September 1998Smoking1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Smoking1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Smoking2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180717-1
15 June 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 2003Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO. RD. 54, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rash: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. 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
Pace ProspectIron, ManganeseProspect
Childers MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rash in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRash$500A tree was knocked down on CR 55 north of Low Gap.
December 2025Thunderstorm WindRash-Debris was reported in the roadway on CR 53 near Rash.
February 2018Flash FloodRash-Over a foot of water covering CR53 in the Rash Community.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Eureka1.9 miles22
Card Switch2.1 miles22
Harris2.1 miles23
Stevenson3.0 miles22
Cedar Grove3.0 miles22
Allison3.4 miles22
Kirby Creek (historical)3.5 miles22
Hymer (historical)4.1 miles22

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 RashAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18393529The 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 156944. 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.