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Remlap, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Locust Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35133. The Survey maps it on the Remlap quadrangle. 2,624 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Remlap within Blount County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

113 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Remlap between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,352 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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 burning51
Arson/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1995Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190917-10
16 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-14
16 September 1999Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1997Debris and open burning7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blount County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Remlap: 12 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 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
Unnamed ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Blount Mountain AreaIronUnknown
Compton Area MineIronPast ProducerHematite
Compton Iron MineIronPast Producer
E J Cozby ProspectIronOccurrence
Hullett ProspectIronProspect
Reuben Little ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Blount County

Storms near this place

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Remlap in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning. 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
April 2001LightningRemlap$25,000A barn was destroyed in a lightning caused fire.
April 2001LightningRemlap$20,000A house fire believed started by lightning occurred in the Pine Mountain area east of Remlap. The fire was believed to have been started by lightning much earlier than the fire was actually reported.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindRemlap$10,000A tree was blown down, and fell onto a vehicle, on Pine Mountain Road near Remlap.
March 1996HailRemlap$10,000no account filed
March 1997HailRemlap$6,000no account filed
March 2000HailRemlap$5,000Dime to golfball size hail fell in and around the city of Remlap.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindRemlap$4,000Small hail occurred with a thunderstorm along with wind that took the tin off a barn roof just east of Remlap.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindRemlap$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down onto a vehicle on Pine Nountain Road, near Remlap.
December 2009Thunderstorm WindRemlap$1,000A couple of trees were blown down on Pine Mountain Road, near the Remlap community.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindRemlap-Several trees uprooted in and around the town of Remlap.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindRemlap-Trees were reported down in multiple locations in the Remlap area.
October 2010HailRemlap-One inch hail reported.
December 2000HailRemlap-Dime to nickel size hail fell in Remlap.
June 2010HailRemlap-no account filed
May 2008HailRemlap-no account filed
April 2006HailRemlap-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blount 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
Watseka (historical)1.2 miles24
Compton1.4 miles23
Pine Mountain1.8 miles24
Inland Junction2.9 miles24
Brentwood3.1 miles23
Gurley3.4 miles23
Woodhaven3.5 miles23
Selfville3.7 miles23

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 RemlapAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14679417The 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 125561. 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.