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Upshaw, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Addison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35540. It stands on Soakingwater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Upshaw quadrangle.

Upshaw within Winston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Upshaw between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,758 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 43 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/incendiarism43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning8
Natural3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaMORELAND-A
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaMORELAND-B
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaMORELAND-F
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaMORELAND-C
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaMORELAND-D
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaMILL CREEK 2
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaMILL CREEK 3
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaMILL CREEK 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winston County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Upshaw in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2016: 2 hail. 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
June 2016HailUpshaw-no account filed
April 2009HailUpshaw-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winston 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
Inmanfield3.0 miles13
New Georgia3.1 miles13
Addison5.6 miles13
Moreland8.2 miles11
Grayson8.7 miles17
Ellaville8.9 miles17
Eagle9.4 miles13
Helicon10.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 160781. 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.