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Roseboro, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the New Market census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35761. The Survey maps it on the New Market quadrangle.

Roseboro within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

140 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Roseboro between 1997 and 2020, burning about 359 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Fireworks1
Natural1
Other causes1

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
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 1998Debris and open burning4.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2006Debris and open burning6.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTennessee Division of ForestryFELIX

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roseboro in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2024Tornado (EF1)Roseboro-A tornado tracked from Lincoln County in Tennessee into far northeast Madison County. Before the tornado dissipated, it uprooted trees and snapped large branches along Old Winchester Road and Cox Run Lane.
May 2009Flash FloodRoseboro-Heavy rainfall from strong to severe thunderstorms produced water six inches deep over Alabama Line Road. Also, water was reported flowing across Honey Drive nearby.
May 2009Flash FloodRoseboro-Six inches of water was reported flowing over Alabama Line Road along the state border and over Honey Drive near the Jenny River just west of Plevna.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Steele Crossing0.6 miles20
Plevna1.7 miles20
Hillsboro3.3 miles20
Fairview3.8 miles20
Mint Spring4.1 miles20
New Market5.3 miles20
Walnut Grove5.7 miles20
Union Grove5.7 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156995. 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.