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Rollins, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the La Fayette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36862. The Survey maps it on the Lafayette quadrangle.

Rollins within Chambers County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

102 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Rollins between 1994 and 2020, burning about 676 acres in total. 2 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 burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.1 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionWEST SIDE OF COOSA RIVER, AL
3 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-15
18 September 2005Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined41 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120912-002
11 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20130911-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rollins: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Clay. 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 OccurrenceAluminum, ClayOccurrence1982

Every working recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rollins in 1 storm report in 2010: 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
January 2010Thunderstorm WindRollins$5,000In the Buffalo community, the equipment barn of a farm had its metal roof blown off and scattered into an adjacent pasture. Winds were estimated around 45 mph.

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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
Buffalo1.2 miles13
Chapel Hill3.4 miles13
Lafayette3.4 miles13
White Plains3.5 miles13
Marcoot3.5 miles13
Wards Mill4.7 miles13
Penton4.7 miles11
Foster Crossroads5.9 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 125913. 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.