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Waugh, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Mount Meigs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36064. The Survey maps it on the Mount Meigs quadrangle. It stands 269 feet above sea level.

Waugh within Montgomery 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

92 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Waugh between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,482 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
5 September 2002Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1200 BLOCK OF WARES FERRY ROAD, AL
3 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190911-6
27 August 2011Natural35 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1616 ALEXANDER RD, AL
26 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Waugh: 12 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Calloway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Chapman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
J.M. Jordon Mining Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Milstead QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Mount Meigs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mount Meigs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mount Meigs QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Mount Meigs QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Mt MeigisSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rex Edwards PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waugh in 5 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
February 2024Flash FloodWaugh-Heavy rainfall of up to 3 inches across much of Montgomery County resulted in numerous flooded roadways across Montgomery, Rolling Hills, Pike Road, and Cecil.
March 2023HailWaugh-Quarter size hail reported at the Waters Pike development.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWaugh-Several trees uprooted along Marier Road.
December 2012Tornado (EF1)Waugh-An EF-1 tornado touched down along County Road 107 (Marler Road) where it caused some minor shingle damage to a single-family residence. The tornado continued north-northeast and crossed Avenue of the Oaks before lifting at the end of Dellsena Lane. Approximately fifty trees were either snapped or uprooted along the path.
April 2022HailWaugh-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Knollwood0.2 miles12
Eastwood Villa0.7 miles12
Freeport1.9 miles12
Brassell2.4 miles12
Merry2.9 miles12
Mount Meigs3.0 miles12
McDade3.4 miles12
Timberlane3.7 miles12

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 WaughAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12898266The 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 128654. 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.