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Welti, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Welti census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35055. It stands on Goodson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Simcoe quadrangle. It stands 718 feet above sea level.

Welti within Cullman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Welti between 1994 and 2019, burning about 182 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160908-9
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160920-3
15 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160915-8
29 August 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission401 CO RD 744, AL
22 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission722 CO RD 750, AL
21 August 2006Debris and open burning16 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman County

Storms near this place

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Welti in 9 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWelti$2,000Trees were knocked down along CR 643. An awning was also blown off of a mobile home. Time estimated by radar.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWelti$2,000Trees and power lines were knocked down at CR 747 at CR 703.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWelti$2,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down two ten-year old trees at a residence. Pea-sized hail was also reported.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWelti$1,000A tree was knocked down at the intersection of CR 747 and CR 730. Time estimated by radar.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWelti$1,000A large tree was knocked down onto County Road 747.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWelti$100Small tree limbs were blown down along CR 730 and CR 747 in the Welti community.
September 2024Flash FloodWelti-County Road 703 bridge near Hanceville is under water. Road is closed at this time.
April 2020Tornado (EF1)Welti-A brief tornado touched down near the junction of County Road 749 and County Road 747 just south of the Welti Community. The tornado moved to the southeast where it uprooted several trees and destroyed a small shed. It crossed County Road 747 and uprooted a few more trees before lifting east of County Road 747 near Glasscock Creek.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWelti-Damaging straight-line winds knocked down trees along a narrow path across east-central Cullman County. At this location, a tree was knocked down on a home along County Road 703. No injuries were reported.

Every storm recorded in Cullman 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
Walkers Corner2.7 miles17
Berlin2.9 miles17
North Walter3.1 miles17
Center Hill3.5 miles19
Walter3.6 miles19
White City3.7 miles18
Bolte3.7 miles19
Wesoda3.7 miles18

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 WeltiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18378482The 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 153923. 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.