Straughn, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Rose Hill-Gantt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36421. The Survey maps it on the Gantt quadrangle. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Straughn within Covington 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Gantt quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

87 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Straughn between 1994 and 2020, burning about 398 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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 burning	45
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Arson/incendiarism	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
29 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2008	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190923-8
23 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190923-11
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2000	Natural	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Covington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Straughn: 24 unknowns, 15 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Covington 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Antioch	1.9 miles	8
Harmony	3.1 miles	8
Valley of Shiloh	3.2 miles	8
Coldwater	3.2 miles	8
Heath	3.3 miles	8
Gantt	3.7 miles	8
Dunns	4.1 miles	8
Clearview	4.6 miles	8

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 Straughn	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058565	The 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 127456. 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.