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Uniform, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Wagarville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36583. The Survey maps it on the Seaboard quadrangle.

Uniform within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

148 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Uniform between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,912 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 51 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/incendiarism51
Debris and open burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural4
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism80 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1997Arson/incendiarism40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1995Railroad operations and maintenance30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Uniform in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 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
April 2020Thunderstorm WindUniform-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees on Highway 17 just south of Tibbie.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Tibbie1.2 miles14
Seaboard3.1 miles14
Topton6.2 miles14
Rutan6.7 miles14
Four Point7.6 miles11
Hawthorn7.8 miles14
Chatom8.1 miles11
Vinegar Bend8.3 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 Q122565813The 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 157186. 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.