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Stansel, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Carrollton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35481. It stands on Johnsons Branch. The Survey maps it on the Carrollton quadrangle.

Stansel within Pickens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

86 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Stansel between 1994 and 2020, burning about 655 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 17 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism17
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20170919-3
17 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stansel in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2009: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2000Thunderstorm WindStansel$2,000Trees were blown down between Reform and Carrollton, in the city of Stansel.
February 2009Flash FloodStansel-Three to six inches of rain caused several roads across Pickens County to become temporarily impassable, including around the city of Reform.

Every storm recorded in Pickens 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
Owens1.1 miles12
Carloss2.3 miles12
Reform4.4 miles12
Lathrop4.5 miles10
Bell4.7 miles10
Carrollton4.8 miles12
Beards Mill5.1 miles12
Bostic5.2 miles10

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 Q122554246The 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 157102. 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.