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Tallapoosa City, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Tallassee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36078. The Survey maps it on the Carrville quadrangle.

Tallapoosa City within Tallapoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

135 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Tallapoosa City between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,341 acres in total. None started naturally. 38 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 burning50
Arson/incendiarism38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Recreation and ceremony11
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2017Debris and open burning35 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20170908-1
25 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2016Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160924-12
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120902-001
18 September 2000Smoking3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minor2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tallapoosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tallapoosa City: 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Mac 5 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Sharpe # 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tallapoosa County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tallapoosa City in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2021Thunderstorm WindTallapoosa City1 hurtSeveral trees uprooted and fell on a home.
September 2018LightningTallapoosa City$250,000Large home on Greenwood Road destroyed by fire started by lightning.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindTallapoosa City$3,000The top of a utility building was blown off.
March 2023HailTallapoosa City-Two inch size hail reported near Elam Baptist Church.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindTallapoosa City-Several trees uprooted around the town of Tallassee.
January 2014Thunderstorm WindTallapoosa City-Trees were uprooted near the intersection of Highway 49 and West Gantt Mills Road.

Every storm recorded in Tallapoosa 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
Carrville1.1 miles11
Buckville2.3 miles11
Smith2.5 miles11
Reeltown4.3 miles11
Liberty City5.7 miles11
Church Hill (historical)8.6 miles10
Cherokee Bluffs9.5 miles11
Union10.2 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122545792The 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 137540. 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.