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Alabam, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in North Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72740. The Survey maps it on the Forum quadrangle.

Alabam within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

33 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Alabam between 1997 and 2020, burning about 574 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 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/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning3
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 1998Arson/incendiarism50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism90 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2000Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 July 1998Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Alabam: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Huntsville Pit & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
War Eagle Lime CoStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alabam in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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 2008Tornado (EF1)Alabam$50,000An NWS storm survey determined that a tornado damaged a home, destroyed several barns and outbuildings, caused extensive tree damage, and blew down power poles and power lines. This tornado continued into Carroll County Arkansas before it dissipated.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindAlabam$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour caused substantial damage to two barns and a shed.
April 2010HailAlabam-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Old Alabam1.2 miles14
Forum2.7 miles14
Harmony3.5 miles13
Marble5.1 miles13
Truth (historical)5.1 miles12
Huntsville5.6 miles13
Hartwell6.8 miles12
Chaplin (historical)6.9 miles14

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.

Wikipedia article on AlabamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18326216The 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 57252. 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.