Toney, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Madison Crossroads census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35773. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Toney quadrangle. It stands 827 feet above sea level.

Toney within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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.

1888 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Toney quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Toney quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

64 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Toney between 1994 and 2020, burning about 309 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning	26
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	3

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
7 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20150915-001
15 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toney in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1998	Tornado (F1)	Toney	$100,000	Six homes were damaged in the Toney community, in northern Madison county. One home had major damage, one had moderate damage and four had minor damage.
April 2006	Hail	Toney	$40,000	Tennis ball size hail was reported at Old Railroad Bed Road in the Bobo community. Several cars and windows were damaged at a few homes in this area.
April 1999	Lightning	Toney	$15,000	One home sustained major damage when a fire broke out from a lightning strike.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Toney	$5,000	Large trees were blown down in Toney.
April 2002	Hail	Toney	$3,000	Quarter size hail was reported just north of Toney. A few trees were also blown down in this location.
December 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Toney	$1,000	Multiple small tree limbs were broken with a few larger limbs south of Highway 53 between Wall Triana Highway and Old Railroad Bed Road. Time estimated by radar.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Toney	$1,000	A social media photo indicated a tree was knocked down across Highway 53 just south of Toney Road. Time estimated by radar.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Toney	-	Trees were knocked down in Toney along Toney School Road. Time was estimated from radar.
March 2017	Hail	Toney	-	Quarter sized hail was reported.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Toney	-	A tree was knocked down across Toney School Road.
May 2015	Dust Devil	Toney	-	Local media reported that a strong dust devil developed near Toney, Alabama, and produced some moderate damage to a small barn. Some of the two by fours that were ten feet long from the small barn were blown over 50 feet and the tin roof from the barn was blown over 300 feet into the air.
September 2009	Flood	Toney	-	Runoff from two to three inches of rainfall caused Indian Creek to overflow its banks. This produced reports of flooding at the intersection of Old Railroad Bed road and Mckee road.
January 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Toney	-	A few power lines were blown down on bobo section road due to thunderstorm winds.
April 2005	Hail	Toney	-	Golf ball size hail was reported.
October 2004	Flash Flood	Toney	-	Water was over the road along Pulaski Pike and Bo Howard road resulting in a car being washed into a ditch.
August 2003	Flash Flood	Toney	-	several inches of water over several county roads.
August 2003	Hail	Toney	-	golf ball size hail reported.
March 2003	Tornado (F0)	Toney	-	Few trees twisted and snapped.
May 2003	Hail	Toney	-	golf ball size hail reported
May 2002	Hail	Toney	-	Penny size hail was observed in Toney.
April 2000	Hail	Toney	-	Dime size hail was observed just north of Toney.
May 1998	Hail	Toney	-	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	Toney	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Madison Crossroads	1.1 miles	21
Ready Crossing	2.4 miles	21
Browns Corner	2.6 miles	21
North Daye Hill	2.9 miles	23
Hoover	3.0 miles	23
Maple Hill	3.0 miles	22
Harvest	3.1 miles	21
Five Points	3.1 miles	21

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 Toney	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7820898	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 128019. 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.