Red Rock, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Littleville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35674. It stands on Greenhill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pride quadrangle.

Red Rock within Colbert County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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.

1925 USGS Barton quadrangle1:62500
1926 USGS Barton quadrangle1:48000
1929 USGS Barton quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1936 USGS Pride quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Pride quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Pride quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

113 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Red Rock between 1994 and 2019, burning about 746 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 43 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/incendiarism	43
Debris and open burning	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	201 PLANTVIEW RD, AL
29 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1998	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colbert 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 Red Rock: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Rock Asphalt, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Alabama Asphaltic Limestone Company Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Rock Asphalt	Producer	1923
	Tuscumbia Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Colbert County

Storms near this place

9 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Rock in 9 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Rock	$10,000,000	A bow echo from an embedded supercell within a line of thunderstorms intensified and produced a long-lived and at times wide swath of wind damage as it entered the Shoals, including Tuscumbia, Sheffield and Muscle Shoals, to the northeast part of the county before crossing the Tennessee River. Wind speeds were measured over 60 mph at multiple locations, and gusts may have reached up to 80-90 mph when a brick wall of a two story building collapsed and a large part of roofing was taken off another portion of the building. Trees, power poles and power lines were taken down in numerous locations. According to utilities in Sheffield, Tuscumbia and Muscle Shoals, over 60 power poles were knocked down or snapped and over 25 transformers were knocked out resulting in widespread power outages. Numerous trees were knocked down. Extensive debris had to be cleaned up off area roads and streets. At least two vehicles were damaged or destroyed by falling trees or other debris. Numerous residences experienced minor to significant damage due to falling trees, or roof damage due to the high winds, and resultant flooding inside homes. At least one home was struct by lightning sparking a damaging fire. Damage and repair costs for public, business and residential exceeded $10 Million.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Rock	$5,000	A tree was knocked down onto a concrete railing at the Henson Creek bridge on Wagon Mountain Road.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Rock	$1,000	A tree was knocked down at 1905 Red Rock Road. Time was estimated from radar.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Rock	$500	A tree was knocked down on Posey Loop at Highway 247. Time estimated by radar.
August 2010	Lightning	Red Rock	$500	Lightning struck a house on highway 247 west of Tuscumbia.
November 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Rock	$100	A tree was knocked down on CR 247 about 5 miles west of U.S. Highway 72.
March 2021	Flash Flood	Red Rock	-	Flash flooding on Patrick Lane. Depth of water unknown.
December 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Red Rock	-	A brief tornado touched down along Patrick Lane just west of Red Rock Road, crossed northeast and lifted back up\|in a grove of trees just behind a house. The worst damage was in this grove of trees, where some tree trunks were snapped.
April 2011	Flash Flood	Red Rock	-	Flash flooding occurred along Patrick Lane per a photograph sent into the National Weather Service.

Every storm recorded in Colbert 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mountain Mills (historical)	1.6 miles	20
Gatesville (historical)	2.4 miles	19
Pride	2.9 miles	19
Barton	3.2 miles	20
Hawk Pride	3.3 miles	19
Newsome Springs	4.1 miles	20
Little Zion (historical)	4.5 miles	19
New Bethel	5.3 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 125496. 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.