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Rosemary, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Greensboro South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36744. The Survey maps it on the Greensboro quadrangle.

Rosemary within Hale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

63 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Rosemary between 1994 and 2020, burning about 320 acres in total. 2 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 burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2002Debris and open burning7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2015Debris and open burning16 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150918-001
18 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale 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 Rosemary: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Hale County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hale County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosemary in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
August 2002Thunderstorm WindRosemary$2,000A couple of large trees were reported blown down in Rosemary.
March 2025Tornado (EF0)Rosemary-A tornado crossed back into Hale County from Perry County north of Perry County Road 24. It produced minor tree damage along Agnew Rd and Hackberry Ln before crossing back into Perry County.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindRosemary-Several trees uprooted a few miles south of the intersection of Highway 69 and Highway 25.
March 2011HailRosemary-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hale 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
Whitsitt3.4 miles9
Greensboro4.1 miles9
Newbern4.4 miles9
Cedarville5.6 miles12
Sunshine6.2 miles9
Casemore7.4 miles12
Melton8.6 miles10
Laneville8.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156996. 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.