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Warsaw, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Panola-Geiger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35442. It stands on Fenache Creek. The Survey maps it on the Warsaw quadrangle. It stands 121 feet above sea level.

Warsaw within Sumter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Warsaw between 1994 and 2019, burning about 271 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
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
20 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Natural211 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 2006Arson/incendiarism11 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 March 1994Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190321-11
13 March 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warsaw in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2007: 2 hail, 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
June 2001HailWarsaw-Dime size hail was reported near Warsaw.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindWarsaw-Three large trees were blown down and blocked CR 34 near Warsaw.
March 2007HailWarsaw-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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
Fair Oaks2.6 miles8
Panola3.6 miles8
Geiger7.2 miles8
Gainesville8.4 miles8
Hamner13.8 miles8
Bethel (historical)14.9 miles8
Emelle15.5 miles8
Sumterville15.7 miles13

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 WarsawAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058590The 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 153894. 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.