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Trade, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Crane Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35053. The Survey maps it on the Crane Hill quadrangle.

Trade within Cullman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Trade between 1992 and 2020, burning about 613 acres in total. None started naturally. 26 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 burning38
Arson/incendiarism26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
8 September 2019Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190908-3
8 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160908-6
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190922-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trade in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindTrade$47,500No less than 50 reports of trees being knocked down were received during or just after a line of severe thunderstorms moved through the county from west-southwest to east-northeast. Power lines were knocked down at least 10 locations.
December 2009Thunderstorm WindTrade$8,000Tree were blown down across the road across CR 940.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindTrade$500Tree down on CR 864.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindTrade$100Up to 3 inch diameter tree limbs were knocked down. Report from mPING. Time estimated by radar.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindTrade-An unspecified number of trees were reported down in locations from west central through southeast Cullman County.

Every storm recorded in Cullman 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
Crane Hill2.4 miles12
Sulphur Springs3.1 miles12
Mount Zion3.3 miles12
Ardell4.9 miles20
Brushy Pond5.1 miles12
Guthery Crossroads5.4 miles12
Cold Springs6.6 miles20
Logan6.7 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157166. 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.