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Searcy, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36037. The Survey maps it on the Fort Deposit quadrangle.

Searcy within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

132 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Searcy between 1994 and 2020, burning about 480 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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
Equipment and vehicle use46
Debris and open burning33
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Smoking13
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150909-001
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20170925-2
24 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20120924-001
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-23
15 September 2001Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2001Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Searcy: 19 unknowns, 14 occurrences, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Searcy in 5 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 2 tornado, 1 flood, 1 flash flood, 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
December 2015FloodSearcy$600,000Numerous roads were closed across Butler County for much of December 24th into early Christmas Day. Numerous dirt roads were damaged in the county, along with some minor damage to a few paved roads.
March 2019Tornado (EF1)Searcy$15,000The tornado formed and damaged an outbuilding near the intersection of Kirkville Road and Steiner Store Road before continuing northeast into a wooded area, where numerous trees were snapped and uprooted. The tornado then crossed Kirkville Road and partially lifted the roof off a one story brick home before dissipating shortly thereafter.
October 2017Tornado (EF0)Searcy$10,000A brief EF-0 tornado touched down in far northeast Butler County on County Road 75. The tornado moved northwest and lifted just east of Highway 31. The tornado produced sporadic tree damage along its path and damage to a metal roof of a residence.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindSearcy-High winds downed trees at Old Stage Road and Highway 185.
May 2018Flash FloodSearcy-Heavy rain caused roads to be closed.

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Fort Dale3.2 miles8
Spring Hill3.4 miles8
Greenville6.0 miles8
Daisy6.5 miles7
Manningham7.8 miles8
Reddock Springs7.9 miles8
Liberty8.0 miles8
Mashville8.5 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157035. 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.