Shanghai, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35614. It stands on Jack Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ripley quadrangle.

Shanghai within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1936 USGS Ripley quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Ripley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Ripley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

60 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Shanghai between 1994 and 2020, burning about 518 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190924-28
20 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190920-5
2 September 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	200 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shanghai in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2003	Tornado (F1)	Shanghai	$350,000	17 homes with minor to major roof damage, 5 barns destroyed and at least 150 trees uprooted and twisted.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Shanghai	$10,000	Numerous trees were blown down.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Shanghai	$3,000	A tree and some power lines were reported down at Elk River Mills road and Hickory Hills road. Time was estimated from radar.
August 2023	Lightning	Shanghai	$500	A lightning strike sparked a grass fire at this location on Elk River Mills road.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Shanghai	$500	A power outage was reported at the intersection of Baker Hill Road and New Cut Road.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Shanghai	-	Trees were knocked down on Baker Hill Road.

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hickory Hills	0.9 miles	15
Cartwright	1.9 miles	15
Persimmon Grove	2.0 miles	15
O'Neal	2.3 miles	15
Lentzville	3.0 miles	15
Gipsy	3.0 miles	15
Elk Estates	3.1 miles	15
Cairo	3.5 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157043. 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.