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Shiloh, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Linden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36736. It stands on Little Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Magnolia quadrangle. It stands 404 feet above sea level.

Shiloh within Marengo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

83 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Shiloh between 1994 and 2019, burning about 645 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
28 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190918-13
16 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-9
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160916-10
14 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1994Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo County

Storms near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shiloh in 1 storm report in 2001: 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
May 2001Thunderstorm WindShiloh$3,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew several trees down near Shiloh.

Every storm recorded in Marengo 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
Miller3.3 miles9
Doyle3.5 miles10
Magnolia3.6 miles9
Wayne3.8 miles10
Moss (historical)4.3 miles9
Williamsburg (historical)4.3 miles9
Surginer5.2 miles10
Octagon5.4 miles9

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.

Wikipedia article on ShilohAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7496700The 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 157050. 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.