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Wedgeworth, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Sawyerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35441. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Warrior Dam quadrangle. It stands 141 feet above sea level.

Wedgeworth within Hale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

81 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Wedgeworth between 1994 and 2019, burning about 576 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 1995Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150924-001
22 September 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Debris and open burning7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190921-18

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale 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 Wedgeworth: 1 producer. All of them 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
Akron PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hale County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wedgeworth in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2004Thunderstorm WindWedgeworth$150,000no account filed
April 2004HailWedgeworth$30,000no account filed
May 2010Thunderstorm WindWedgeworth$2,000Several trees were blown down on Clear Creek Road.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindWedgeworth-Approximately a half dozen trees were reported down near the intersection of Highway 60 and Highway 14.
March 2019HailWedgeworth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hale 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
Evansville2.1 miles14
New Prospect2.6 miles9
Darrah3.6 miles14
Sawyerville4.3 miles9
Akron4.8 miles9
Oak Village6.2 miles14
Melton6.3 miles10
Stewart7.7 miles9

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 WedgeworthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058592The 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 155298. 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.