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Stonewall, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Loachapoka-Roxana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36801. The Survey maps it on the Opelika West quadrangle.

Stonewall within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Stonewall between 1994 and 2019, burning about 271 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-29
10 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160910-24
30 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120730-001
24 June 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution6.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 147, AL
20 May 2007Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20130410-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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 Stonewall: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Mica. 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
Bruce Priester ProspectTitaniumOccurrence
Yarborough-Smith-Neighbor ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stonewall in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 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
December 2009Flash FloodStonewall$5,000Repeated heavy rainfall led to the closure of a portion of CR-318, due to water flowing over a bridge.
February 2024Flash FloodStonewall-Roads around Smiths Station became impassable after heavy rainfall.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindStonewall-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed near the intersection of Lee Road 318 and 319.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Gold Hill1.9 miles11
The Bottle2.1 miles14
Farmville2.9 miles14
Aubrey3.0 miles14
North Auburn3.8 miles14
Lakewood3.9 miles14
Ridge Grove4.0 miles11
North Gate4.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157116. 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.