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Stroud, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Five Points census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36855. The Survey maps it on the Five Points quadrangle. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Stroud within Chambers County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

156 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Stroud between 1994 and 2020, burning about 819 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 30 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 burning68
Arson/incendiarism30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
29 September 2019Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190929-7
27 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190927-20
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-26
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-29
23 September 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180923-3
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Stroud: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. 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
R.I.Beckem PropertyIron, ManganeseOccurrence

Every working recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stroud in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2006: 4 hail, 2 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
November 2004Thunderstorm WindStroud$65,000Several trees were blown down or snapped off near the intersection of CR 236 and CR 237. One roof was peeled off a building. Several other homes suffered minor damage.
January 2006HailStroud$2,000Golf ball size hail was reported just east of the Stroud community. The hail continued to fall all the way to the Georgia state-line.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindStroud$2,000A few trees were blown down.
April 2006HailStroud-Reported on Highway 434 from Five Points to Stroud.
February 2005HailStroud-Penny size hail was observed near the Stroud community. This was the second large hailproducing storm to affect areas near Stroud within an hour.
February 2005HailStroud-Penny size hail was reported near the Stroud community.

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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
Cumbee Mill1.3 miles11
Welch2.3 miles11
Finley2.6 miles11
Five Points2.7 miles11
Doublehead4.3 miles11
Standing Rock4.5 miles11
Fredonia5.0 miles13
White Plains5.6 miles13

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 StroudAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21196623The 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 127474. 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.