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Sweetwater, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mooresville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35671. The Survey maps it on the Tanner quadrangle.

Sweetwater within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Sweetwater between 1994 and 2019, burning about 215 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-4
16 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burning35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 1999Debris and open burning1.1 acresWheeler National Wildlife RefugeWWSSPOTNOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sweetwater in 1 storm report in 2020: 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSweetwater$200A tree was knocked down on the southbound portion of I-65 just before the Tennessee River. Time estimated by radar.

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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
Irvington1.1 miles22
Mooresville1.9 miles22
Whiteside1.9 miles22
Belle Mina2.8 miles22
Decatur Junction2.9 miles22
Harris Station3.6 miles22
Orrville4.2 miles22
Greenbrier4.8 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 137908. 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.