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Yucca, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Long Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35772. It lies near Wolf Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Stevenson quadrangle.

Yucca within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

59 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Yucca between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,135 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 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/incendiarism21
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
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
7 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1998Smoking1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Smoking1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Yucca: 3 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Jackson CountyIronUnknown
Jac 1 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Jac 16 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Jac 2 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yucca in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
January 2022Thunderstorm WindYucca$5,000A power pole was broken along CR 91.
February 2025Flash FloodYucca-CR 491 south of Hwy 117 near Stevenson was reported flooded. Depth of water about 8-10.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindYucca-Broad wind damage, almost exclusively to trees, was noted to the north of an EF-1 tornado track across the Stevenson and Bridgeport areas. Multiple trees were snapped an uprooted near Stevenson, particularly between the intersection of U.S. Highway 72 and County Road 137, and the intersection of U.S. Highway 72 and County Road 287. One tree snapped and fell onto a house south of County Road 137. Additional spotty tree damage was noted in downtown Stevenson west of Main Street.||Significant widespread tree damage was observed in downtown Bridgeport. Tens of large trees were snapped and uprooted, in an area extending from Highway 277, northeast to the Tennessee River, and east of Bussey Avenue. Many if not all of the trees were facing in a northeast direction.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Fabius1.7 miles22
Yucca (historical)2.3 miles22
Old Fabius2.6 miles22
Hymer (historical)2.9 miles22
Sulphur Springs3.4 miles24
Pinder Hill4.0 miles22
Wannville4.1 miles21
Cedar Grove4.2 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157290. 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.