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Rosalie, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pisgah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35765. It stands on Hogskin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Henagar quadrangle. It stands 1,483 feet above sea level.

Rosalie within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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 Rosalie between 1994 and 2020, burning about 963 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 33 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 burning50
Arson/incendiarism33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160924-6
22 September 2020Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200922-3
21 September 2019Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190921-12
20 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2011Debris and open burning65 acresAlabama Forestry Commission785 CR 346, AL
18 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190917-13

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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 Rosalie: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Jac 16 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosalie in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2008: 5 hail, 2 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
May 1998HailRosalie$10,000Golf ball size hail was reported in Rosalie.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindRosalie$4,000A severe thunderstorm produced winds which downed a 60 foot tree onto a barn on county road 113 in front of the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindRosalie$2,000Trees were blown down in Rosalie.
April 2006HailRosalie-Quarter size hail was reported to be covering the ground.
July 2006HailRosalie-Hail up to quarter sized was reported.
April 2002HailRosalie-Quarter size hail was reported between Rosalie and Flat Rock in eastern Jackson County.
May 1999HailRosalie-Three-quarter inch hail was reported near Rosalie in eastern Jackson County.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Glenzaida1.9 miles20
Shrader2.1 miles21
Central2.6 miles20
Pisgah4.4 miles20
Fair View5.2 miles20
Rorex (historical)5.9 miles23
Yucca (historical)5.9 miles22
Morris Mill5.9 miles20

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 RosalieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7367177The 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 153215. 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.