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Tessner, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Hackleburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35564. It stands on King Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hackleburg quadrangle.

Tessner within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

112 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Tessner between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,806 acres in total. None started naturally. 50 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/incendiarism50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Debris and open burning24
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1
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
30 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Other causes1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Debris and open burning200 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionWACO FIRE
10 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20130910-002
4 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20140804-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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 Tessner: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin, 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
Hackleburg Kaolin Ala.KaolinPast ProducerSedimentary
Hackleburg PitsClayProducer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tessner in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
March 2023Tornado (EF1)Tessner-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northeast Marion County and determined that it was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum winds near 110 mph. The tornado touched down along the Horseshoe Bend area of Bear Creek. The tornado tracked eastward where it produced its most significant damage along Highway 172 and Highway 241, where numerous pine trees were snapped. Additional trees were uprooted as the tornado approached Highway 13, where it also caused damage to a house and barn on County Road 65. The tornado dissipated along the banks of the Upper Bear Creek Reservoir.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindTessner-A tree was blown down across Highway 172 near Bear Creek Bridge.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Fairview0.2 miles14
Hackleburg2.6 miles14
Lumbull3.1 miles14
Allens Factory4.0 miles14
Goddard4.6 miles12
Bear Creek4.9 miles14
Wiginton5.1 miles12
Brinn5.9 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 Q122558344The 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 138074. 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.