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Stewart, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Stewart-Akron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35441. The Survey maps it on the Moundville West quadrangle. It stands 135 feet above sea level.

Stewart within Hale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

107 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Stewart between 1994 and 2018, burning about 372 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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 burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
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
7 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission1679 CO RD 64, AL
27 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140927-001
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140923-001
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20170920-1
20 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Stewart: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Akron PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cypress PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hale County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stewart in 1 storm report in 2017: 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
March 2017Thunderstorm WindStewart-Several trees uprooted along Highway 60.

Every storm recorded in Hale 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
Akron3.1 miles9
Oak Village3.2 miles14
Cypress3.3 miles9
Powers4.6 miles9
Havana4.7 miles11
New Prospect5.2 miles9
Evansville5.6 miles14
Darrah5.8 miles14

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 StewartAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21196622The 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 153571. 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.