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Woodland Mills, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Laceys Spring census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35670. It lies near Potato Hill. The Survey maps it on the Center Grove quadrangle.

Woodland Mills within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

57 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Woodland Mills between 1994 and 2018, burning about 528 acres in total. 1 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Natural1
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
29 September 1998Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-41
24 September 2016Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160924-9
15 September 2018Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180915-4
15 September 1999Debris and open burning17 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission360 THOMAS RD, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Woodland Mills: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Plant No. 5 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodland Mills in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 3 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWoodland Mills$2,000A tree was knocked down onto a power line. Time estimated by radar.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindWoodland Mills$200One inch diameter tree limbs and roof shingles damaged. Report from mPing.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindWoodland Mills$200A tree was knocked down onto Luker Road.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Valhermoso Springs1.9 miles23
Union2.6 miles20
West Point3.0 miles20
Lynntown3.1 miles20
Pence3.8 miles20
Winton3.9 miles24
Florette4.0 miles20
Stringer4.2 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 154026. 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.