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Terrytown, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Town Creek-Courtland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35618. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Masterson Mill quadrangle.

Terrytown within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

154 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Terrytown between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,343 acres in total. None started naturally. 68 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/incendiarism68
Debris and open burning53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2015Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150923-002
23 September 2004Arson/incendiarism17 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2016Arson/incendiarism18 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160917-4
15 September 1999Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1997Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Terrytown in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
March 1996Flash FloodTerrytown$25,000no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindTerrytown$1,000Power lines were knocked down on CR 150.
September 2024FloodTerrytown-A man was rescued from flood waters at the intersection of CR 150 and CR 257. This is near a small creek that feeds into nearby Big Nance Creek. Depth of water estimated at 2-3 feet.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Rigdom1.8 miles14
Courtland Downs3.1 miles14
North Courtland3.4 miles14
Courtland3.6 miles14
Rocky Hill3.8 miles14
Loosier3.9 miles13
Terry Heights4.0 miles14
Rocky Hill (historical)4.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 127775. 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.