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Robjohn, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Lisman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36922. It stands on Chucksey Branch. The Survey maps it on the Jachin quadrangle. It stands 98 feet above sea level.

Robjohn within Choctaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

62 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Robjohn between 1994 and 2018, burning about 782 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission196 GREY FOX ROAD, AL
9 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission859 MARZETTA ROAD, AL
31 August 1995Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140806-001
13 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined48 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Robjohn in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2020: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindRobjohn-High winds downed trees on Highway 17, 5 to 6 miles north of Butler.
April 2014Flash FloodRobjohn-Heavy rain caused Highway 156 to be closed in northern Choctaw County.

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
Choctaw City1.8 miles8
Deas1.9 miles8
Jachin2.4 miles9
Indian Springs3.0 miles8
Chapel Hill3.7 miles9
Pennington3.8 miles8
Pelham4.5 miles8
Little Walker5.1 miles9

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 RobjohnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7353186The 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 125740. 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.