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Sellersville, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Samson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36477. It stands on Tight Eye Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sellersville quadrangle.

Sellersville within Geneva 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

47 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Sellersville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 323 acres in total. 4 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
9 September 2019Natural10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190909-10
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190908-9
30 September 2019Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-17
19 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140919-001
7 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140808-001
31 August 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2010Debris and open burning3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2000Natural2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Geneva County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Sellersville: 13 unknowns. 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 Geneva County

Storms near this place

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sellersville in 3 storm reports between 2020 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2021Flash FloodSellersville$5,000A picture was posted on social media of Coffee Springs Road partially washed out heading into Sellersville from Samson.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSellersville$3,000A tree was blown down along with a broken power pole.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindSellersville$2,000Trees and power lines were blocking the road.

Every storm recorded in Geneva 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
Spears1.4 miles12
Samson2.5 miles8
Mount Carmel2.8 miles8
Marl3.0 miles12
Piney Grove3.6 miles8
Lytle4.6 miles12
Pera4.7 miles8
Coffee Springs5.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 126541. 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.