Weeks, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Samson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36453. It stands on Snake Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sellersville quadrangle.

Weeks within Geneva County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Sellersville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

35 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Weeks between 1996 and 2020, burning about 303 acres in total. 4 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 burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
19 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20140808-003
1 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	27 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2010	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 July 2015	Natural	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20150729-001
29 July 2015	Natural	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20150729-002
29 July 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Geneva County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Weeks: 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gen 5 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
Margaret H Hooper Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Geneva County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weeks in 1 storm report in 2013: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Weeks	$1,000	A tree blew down onto a power line along County Road 5.

Every storm recorded in Geneva 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pera	1.7 miles	8
Earlytown	1.7 miles	8
Lowery	1.8 miles	8
Piney Grove	3.7 miles	8
Samson	4.5 miles	8
Ganer	4.7 miles	8
Hacoda	5.9 miles	7
Sellersville	6.1 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 128697. 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.