Shirley, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Samantha census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35446. It stands on Dunn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Lurleen quadrangle.

Shirley within Tuscaloosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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.

1926 USGS Samantha quadrangle1:48000
1928 USGS Samantha quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Lake Lurleen quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Shirley between 1994 and 2020, burning about 377 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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
Arson/incendiarism	18
Debris and open burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2016	Debris and open burning	41 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160909-23
13 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	13 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20140808-001
18 August 2002	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 2001	Natural	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1996	Smoking	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20140728-001
2 July 2000	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 Tuscaloosa County

Storms near this place

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shirley in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado. 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 2009	Tornado (EF1)	Shirley	$100,000	The tornado touched down along CR-21 on the western side of Lake Arnedra, crossed the lake, and then lifted on the eastern shore. Two large hardwood trees were blown down onto houses causing major damage to one of the homes and making it uninhabitable. Another hardwood was toppled on the western shore of the lake.
December 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Shirley	$5,000	Several trees were blown down on roads just north of Lake Lurleen State Park.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Shirley	$2,000	Several trees were blown down on AL-171, and on Rue Road.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Shirley	$500	A few trees were blown down on Paul Mills Road, east of the Echola community.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Shirley	$500	A few trees were blown down on Sawmill Road, west of Lake Tuscaloosa.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Shirley	$500	A single tree was blown down on AL-171, near Lake Lurleen State Park.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Shirley	-	Several trees uprooted along Highway 171.
January 2012	Tornado (EF2)	Shirley	-	A tornado, with maximum winds speeds estimated at 120 mph, touched down near the intersection of Alabama Highway 171 and Koffman Ranch Road, in the Koffman area. Approximately two dozen pine trees were uprooted in the location. The tornado then traveled northeast destroying one outbuilding along Koffman Spur. Just to the northeast of Koffman spur, a barn was destroyed and the entire roof was torn off of a well-constructed single family residence. The tornado lifted before reaching Carroll Creek. Merchantable timber losses estimated by the Alabama Forestry Commission for this track are approximately $4K.
March 2015	Hail	Shirley	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Shirley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuscaloosa 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
Echola	2.3 miles	10
Brownville	3.0 miles	10
Montgomery Lakes	3.9 miles	16
Mount Olive	6.2 miles	18
Highview	6.3 miles	18
Holman	6.3 miles	10
Buhl	6.4 miles	10
Western Hills	6.5 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 148552. 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.