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Wehadkee, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Roanoke census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36274. It stands on Stitt Branch. The Survey maps it on the Roanoke East quadrangle.

Wehadkee within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

120 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Wehadkee between 1993 and 2019, burning about 907 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 24 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 burning59
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2019Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-19
30 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-7
20 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-32
20 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wehadkee in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWehadkee$20,000At least two mobile homes received considerable roof damage. One home and one church also received minor shingle damage.
February 2009Tornado (EF1)Wehadkee$10,000The tornado touched down in a forested area one-quarter mile west of County Road 296, about 8 miles northeast of Roanoke. It then tracked east-southeastward for just under a mile before lifting near the Georgia state line. Several hundred trees were either snapped off or blown down along the path, but it hit no other structures.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindWehadkee-Trees were blown down along County Road 30, near Paran.

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Springfield2.1 miles11
Lee Crossroads2.4 miles11
Paran2.5 miles11
Barrett Crossroads2.6 miles11
High Shoals2.8 miles11
Big Springs3.6 miles10
Taylors Crossroads3.9 miles11
White Crossroads3.9 miles11

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 Q122595230The 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 157228. 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.