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Thach, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35620. The Survey maps it on the Elkmont quadrangle. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Thach within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

78 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Thach between 1994 and 2020, burning about 565 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning47
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism1
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
22 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150902-001
2 September 1999Smoking5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Debris and open burning140 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Smoking10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160914-5
14 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

13 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thach in 13 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
October 2007Thunderstorm WindThach$1,000,000A tree was blown down on a home on New Bethel Road in Elkmont.
April 2009Tornado (EF0)Thach$20,000A brief tornado snapped and downed up to twenty trees at a farmstead on the west side of interstate 65 at mile marker 359.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindThach$5,000Numerous large trees were knocked down or snapped. Damage to a barn was reported.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindThach$5,000Roof damage due to thunderstorm winds was reported at the 24000 block of Mooresville Road in the Thatch community.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindThach$5,000A roof was peeled off of a barn.
March 2011HailThach$5,000Golf ball sized hail was reported along Interstate 65.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindThach$4,000A metal roof was peeled off of a church at 22860 Sandlin road. Trees were also knocked down in the area. Time was estimated by radar and associated with a gust front.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindThach$1,000A tree was knocked down onto a house on Thach Road. Time estimated by radar.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindThach-Roof damage to a church was reported via social media.
November 2017Thunderstorm WindThach-Trees and power lines were knocked down near the intersection of Wooley Springs Road and Holt Road.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindThach-A large tree was knocked down onto a car at a residence on Thach Road.
March 2012HailThach-Quarter sized hail was reported at Mile Marker 362 on Interstate 65.
June 2009Flash FloodThach-Heavy rainfall produced flash flooding across a couple of roads in the Thach community.

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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
Oak Grove2.0 miles22
Sand Spring (historical)2.5 miles22
Holland Gin3.0 miles20
Woodfin Mill3.3 miles20
Locke Crossroads3.3 miles20
Carey3.7 miles20
Estaville (historical)3.8 miles20
Bethel4.0 miles22

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 ThachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21196636The 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 153671. 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.