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Yolande, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Abernant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35490. It stands on Texas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Abernant quadrangle.

Yolande within Tuscaloosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

186 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Yolande between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,470 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 71 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
Arson/incendiarism71
Debris and open burning59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony16
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Fireworks1
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
9 September 1995Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Yolande: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yolande in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2014: 1 hail, 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
April 2014Tornado (EF1)Yolande-The tornado touched down approximately a quarter mile west of Milldale Road near Davis Creek. It traveled to the northeast where it snapped and uprooted trees. The tornado crossed Griffen Ridge Road, Ridge Road and then Weller Road with winds of 105 mph and uprooted trees along each road. The tornado continued northeastward into Jefferson County.
June 2008HailYolande-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuscaloosa 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
Abernant1.2 miles19
Pattersontown1.6 miles19
Million Dollar Lake Estates3.3 miles19
Lake View3.4 miles19
Cloester Valley4.1 miles20
Chambers4.8 miles19
Rickey5.0 miles19
Chamblee5.0 miles19

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 Q122552472The 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 158962. 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.