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Wannville, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Stevenson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35752. It stands on Owen Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wannville quadrangle.

Wannville within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

38 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Wannville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 344 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 burning12
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Smoking1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2005Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2006Natural40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2007Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180717-1
16 July 2008Debris and open burning7.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 42, HOLLYWOOD AL, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wannville: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jackson CountyIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

7 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wannville in 7 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 7 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
December 2025Thunderstorm WindWannville$3,000Trees down at the intersection of CR 42 and U.S. highway 72.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindWannville$3,000Trees were snapped and uprooted at 1900 CR 46.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWannville$2,000TA tree and some powerlines were reported down in Fackler.
November 2022Thunderstorm WindWannville$2,000A photo was provided showing multiple trees snapped. Time estimated by radar.
December 2024Thunderstorm WindWannville$500A tree was knocked down at the intersection of CR 230 and CR 141.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWannville$500A large tree was knocked down along CR 50 near Hollywood.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWannville$500A tree was knocked down onto a power line along County Road 46 in Hollywood.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Fackler2.0 miles21
Yucca (historical)2.6 miles22
Martintown3.3 miles23
Cedar Grove3.9 miles22
Hymer (historical)4.0 miles22
Yucca4.1 miles22
Riverland Estates4.8 miles23
Georgetown5.5 miles23

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 Q122556240The 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 157214. 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.