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Social Town, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Luverne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36035. The Survey maps it on the Glenwood quadrangle. It stands 384 feet above sea level.

Social Town within Crenshaw 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

80 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Social Town between 1994 and 2020, burning about 346 acres in total. 1 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 burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
27 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2007Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2002Debris and open burning1.8 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1996Recreation and ceremony2.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150810-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crenshaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 46 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 46 workings within 5 miles of Social Town: 20 unknowns, 17 past producers, 5 prospects, 4 occurrences. 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
E W Williams ProspectIronProspect
E W Williams ProspectIronProspect
Felix Horn ProspectIronProspect
Horn PitIronPast Producer
Joe West ProspectIronProspect
O D Warren ProspectIronProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Crenshaw County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Social Town in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2019Tornado (EF0)Social Town$20,000The tornado formed west of Goshen, AL near the intersection of Jones Bridge Rd and Athen Church Rd where it uprooted trees and tore the roof off of a chicken barn. The tornado continued east causing damage to tree limbs before crossing N Goshen Rd into Pike County.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindSocial Town-Severe thunderstorm wind downed four large trees along Troy Highway.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindSocial Town-Chicken houses were damaged by severe thunderstorm wind gusts.

Every storm recorded in Crenshaw 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
Shirleys Crossroads0.9 miles8
Vidette1.6 miles8
Glenwood3.3 miles8
Luverne4.4 miles7
Joquin5.2 miles7
Carmen5.5 miles8
Patsburg5.7 miles7
Rutledge6.9 miles7

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.

Wikidata item Q18378940The 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 157085. 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.