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Scyrene, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Grove Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36436. The Survey maps it on the Fulton East quadrangle.

Scyrene within Clarke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

38 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Scyrene between 1994 and 2020, burning about 491 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning9
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
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
8 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20200928-1
20 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined182 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20130920-001
17 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 35, AL
10 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190806-1
3 August 2015Natural42 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150803-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Scyrene: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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
Pit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Scyrenne PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz

Every working recorded in Clarke County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scyrene in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
February 2013Flash FloodScyrene$25,000Heavy rains caused several roads to be washed out in portions of the county.
August 1996Flash FloodScyrene$15,000no account filed
November 2000Thunderstorm WindScyrene$5,000High thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and power lines near the community.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindScyrene-High winds downed trees along Brooksville Road.
April 2021HailScyrene-Quarter size hail reported near Scyrene.

Every storm recorded in Clarke 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
Nettleboro3.3 miles7
Dickinson3.4 miles7
Vashti3.7 miles7
Fulton4.8 miles7
Asbury5.5 miles7
Chance6.2 miles7
Greenwood6.2 miles8
Pleasant Hill6.4 miles7

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.

Wikidata item Q122560975The 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 157034. 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.