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Simcoe, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Simcoe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35058. It stands on Short Creek. The Survey maps it on the Simcoe quadrangle. It stands 948 feet above sea level.

Simcoe within Cullman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

35 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Simcoe between 1997 and 2019, burning about 150 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning16
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
25 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1885 COUNTY ROAD 1559, AL
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160920-3
18 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCOUNTY ROAD 1561, AL
18 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCOUNTY ROAD 1561, AL
15 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160915-8
29 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140829-005
21 August 2006Debris and open burning16 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman County

Storms near this place

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Simcoe in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 7 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
April 2025Thunderstorm WindSimcoe$10,000An open hay barn was blown down.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindSimcoe$2,000Trees and power lines were knocked down and blocking both lanes of the roadway at 2017 CR 1714.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSimcoe$2,000Power lines were knocked down at CR 747 at Highway 69. Time estimated by radar.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindSimcoe$1,000A tree was knocked down on CR 1635.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSimcoe$500A tree was knocked down off of CR 1648.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSimcoe$500Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down in Simcoe on Highway 69.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindSimcoe-Trees were knocked down onto the road along CR 1640. Time estimated by radar.

Every storm recorded in Cullman 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
Pleasant View1.8 miles19
Gold Ridge2.7 miles17
Berlin3.0 miles17
Walkers Corner3.2 miles17
Fairview3.3 miles18
Mount View3.4 miles17
East Point4.2 miles19
Birdsong4.9 miles17

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 SimcoeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058559The 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 126860. 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.