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Tabor, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Lookout Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35904. It stands on Mud Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Keener quadrangle.

Tabor within Etowah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

139 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Tabor between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,450 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 56 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/incendiarism56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Debris and open burning32
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
24 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2004Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Arson/incendiarism13 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2006Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Etowah County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Tabor: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. 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
Black Warrior River Manganese Pros.ManganeseOccurrencePyrolusite, Wad
Campbell Gap Manganese ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Citico MineIronPast ProducerHematite
Leeth Mt. AreaIronPast ProducerHematite
Taylor Branch HollowIronPast ProducerHematite

Every working recorded in Etowah County

Storms near this place

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tabor in 9 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindTabor$3,000A roof was blown off of a barn and several trees were downed on Blackwell Road.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindTabor$1,000Several trees were blown down in the Tabor Road Community.
April 2025HailTabor-Golf ball size hail fell in Keener.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindTabor-Several trees uprooted along Tabor Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindTabor-Several trees uprooted in the Black Creek Community.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindTabor-Winds were estimated to be 70 mph in the Black Creek Area, with power outages.
March 2003Tornado (F0)Tabor-A tornado touched down in a heavily wooded area near the top of the ridge that forms Lookout Mountain in northeast Etowah County. The tornado was photographed by a person in southwest Cherokee County and observed by several people on the west side of the ridge. Besides trees, no other damage occurred since it was in an extremely remote area.Beg: 34 08.438/85 52.998 End: 34 08.935/85 51.960
March 2012HailTabor-no account filed
March 2012HailTabor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Etowah 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
Keener1.8 miles20
Greenwood1.9 miles20
Black Creek2.7 miles20
Bath Springs3.1 miles18
Scrougeout3.3 miles19
Yancy3.4 miles20
Lay Springs3.5 miles19
Wilsonia3.6 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 127629. 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.