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Whitfield, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the York census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36925. The Survey maps it on the Whitfield quadrangle.

Whitfield within Sumter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

31 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Whitfield between 1996 and 2019, burning about 843 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning9
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
3 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140903-001
22 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2000Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2000Misuse of fire by a minor1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2000Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 June 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150524-001
23 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150523-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitfield in 1 storm report in 2023: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023Thunderstorm WindWhitfield-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in Whitfield.

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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
Troy (historical)2.5 miles8
Persimmon Grove3.3 miles8
Derby4.5 miles10
Bellamy6.2 miles9
Gaston7.1 miles10
Coatopa8.3 miles11
Arrington (historical)8.4 miles11
Lilita8.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 153977. 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.