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Tabernacle, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Enterprise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36351. The Survey maps it on the Enterprise NE quadrangle. It stands 436 feet above sea level.

Tabernacle within Coffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

43 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Tabernacle between 1995 and 2018, burning about 273 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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 1999Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20120927-001
21 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Tabernacle: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. 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
Cof 2 Clay ProspectClayProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Coffee County

Storms near this place

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tabernacle in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
February 2016Thunderstorm WindTabernacle$3,000Multiple trees and power lines were blown down in the area.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindTabernacle$3,000Trees were blown down along Highway 167. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindTabernacle-Multiple trees were blown down in the Tabernacle area.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindTabernacle-A tree was down on Highway 51.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindTabernacle-A tree was down on Highway 167.
July 2018HailTabernacle-Penny size hail was reported on Highway 51 near Tabernacle.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindTabernacle-A convective wind gust of 51 knots was reported.
July 2008HailTabernacle-Penny size hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in Coffee 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
Clintonville3.3 miles11
Mixson3.4 miles11
Gateway Estates5.0 miles12
New Brockton5.5 miles11
Boland Acres5.9 miles12
Richburg6.0 miles11
Clubview Estates6.2 miles12
Country Club Meadows6.2 miles12

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 TabernacleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058571The 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 127619. 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.