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Zoar, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Jack census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36323. It lies near Coston Hill. The Survey maps it on the Bluff Springs quadrangle.

Zoar within Coffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

56 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Zoar between 1994 and 2020, burning about 690 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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 burning22
Arson/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3

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
17 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190917-1
17 September 2010Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2020Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200805-2
30 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCOUNTY ROAD 342, AL
26 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined87 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee 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 Zoar: 1 unknown. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Coffee County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zoar in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 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 2013Thunderstorm WindZoar$2,000Trees were blown down on power lines on CR 330.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindZoar-Trees were blown down along County Road 333.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindZoar-A tree was blown down on County Road 306.

Every storm recorded in Coffee 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
Newby2.1 miles7
Bluff Springs3.4 miles8
Lee3.5 miles8
Shady Grove3.7 miles8
Saddle Hill5.4 miles8
Pine Level5.7 miles8
Jack6.4 miles8
Lowry Mill6.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157294. 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.