Tishabee, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Forkland-Tishabee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35443. It stands on Taylor Branch. The Survey maps it on the Forkland quadrangle.

Tishabee within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1947 USGS Forkland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1949 USGS Forkland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

46 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Tishabee between 1994 and 2019, burning about 484 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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/incendiarism	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	87 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1996	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene 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 Tishabee: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Sumter County Pit No. 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Sumter County Pit No. 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tishabee in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2011	Tornado (EF2)	Tishabee	$5,000,000	A tornado touched down in southwestern Greene county and moved northeast through central Hale and Bibb counties, before lifting near Marvel in far northeast Bibb county. The tornado touched down near the Tombigbee River, west of Tishabee on CR 69, and intensified to an EF2 rating with winds of 120 mph. As the tornado moved northeast, hundreds of trees were downed, a barn damaged, two small churches destroyed, and several mobile homes destroyed. The tornado crossed US Hwy 43 near Thornhill, destroying a large metal outbuilding and causing major roof and wall damage to several brick buildings. At least two minor injuries were noted along the path in Greene county. The tornado crossed the Black Warrior River and into Hale county east of Lake Mark Hanna.
February 2022	Tornado (EF0)	Tishabee	-	National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southern Greene County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 75 mph. The tornado touched down just south of Greene County Road 69 in the Charleston Swamp east of Tishabee and west of Riverwalk Road. The first damage produced was along County Road 69, and was limited to trees damaging homes. Mainly tree damage continued as the tornado tracked northeast and crossed Alabama Highway 43. The tornado continued northeast over inaccessible land between Highway 43 and the Black Warrior River. The tornado crossed into Hale County in the Mason Bend area of the Black Warrior River basin.
March 2022	Tornado (EF1)	Tishabee	-	National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southern Greene County and determined that it was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum winds near 100 mph. The tornado touched down west of Johnston Lake where some trees were snapped and uprooted. The tornado then impacted some mobile homes on Knott Rd. One mobile home was rolled and destroyed. The tornado continued northeast across a heavily wooded area but then impacted homes and farm buildings near Taylor Branch. One house sustained minor roof and siding damage, but a mobile home farther east was completely destroyed with debris blown north into a tree line along County Road 50. Residents were not home at the time. The tornado continued northeast impacting a nearby church at County Roads 50 and 72. Several homes nearby sustained minor to significant roof damage on Develle Road. The tornado continued northeast crossing County Roads 49, 20 and 148, where trees were snapped and uprooted. The tornado lifted near Taylor Creek before it crossed Highway 43.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Braggville	3.1 miles	13
Hycutt	4.8 miles	13
Thornhill	5.0 miles	13
Rosemont	5.3 miles	13
Forkland	6.2 miles	13
Five Points	6.5 miles	13
Miller	6.7 miles	13
Fowler	7.1 miles	13

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 Tishabee	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85809814	The 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 157162. 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.