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Womack Hill, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Gilbertown-Toxey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36908. It stands on Big Tallawampa Creek. The Survey maps it on the Coffeeville Lock And Dam quadrangle.

Womack Hill within Choctaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

50 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Womack Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 300 acres in total. 2 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionLENOIR LANDING RD., AL
5 September 2007Natural5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150916-001
29 August 1998Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSHADY GROVE RD, AL
16 August 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190816-13
5 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Womack Hill in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 1997: 2 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
February 1997Thunderstorm WindWomack Hill$2,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindWomack Hill$1,500no account filed

Every storm recorded in Choctaw 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
Barrytown3.6 miles12
Thornton Springs3.7 miles12
Chappell Hill4.4 miles12
Flatwood4.7 miles12
Lou4.7 miles12
Wimbly5.3 miles12
Pleasant Hill5.5 miles12
Old Samuel6.4 miles12

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 Q122545335The 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 155311. 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.