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Riderwood, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Butler census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36904. It stands on Rocky Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lisman quadrangle.

Riderwood within Choctaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

70 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Riderwood between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,054 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Other causes1
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
8 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190925-3
17 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Smoking15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200910-1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riderwood in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
March 2023Thunderstorm WindRiderwood-High winds downed powerlines on Riderwood Drive at Scott Mountain Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindRiderwood-Trees were down on Riderwood Drive.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindRiderwood-High winds downed trees in the Scott Mountain area.
April 2014Flash FloodRiderwood-Heavy rain caused flooding along Riderwood Dr. and Hwy. 10 in Butler.
May 1999HailRiderwood-Nickel to quarter size hail was reported from Riderwood to near Cyril.

Every storm recorded in Choctaw 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
Lisman3.7 miles8
Rock Springs4.0 miles8
West Butler4.2 miles8
Pushmataha4.7 miles8
Green Acres5.9 miles9
Cyril6.1 miles8
Butler6.2 miles9
Hinton6.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 125626. 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.