Ackerville, Alabama
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Pine Apple census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36741. The Survey maps it on the Carlowville quadrangle. It stands 285 feet above sea level.
On record in Ackerville
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Ackerville Baptist Church of Christlisted 2003
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Carlowville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Carlowville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
34 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Ackerville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 241 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 July 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.7 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.1 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| McBrydes | 3.5 miles | 7 | |
| Snow Hill | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Hamburg | 4.0 miles | 7 | |
| Darlington | 4.9 miles | 7 | |
| Furman | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Rock Springs | 5.7 miles | 7 | |
| Allenton | 6.4 miles | 7 | |
| Rosebud | 7.2 miles | 7 |
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 Ackerville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4674267 | The 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 154959. 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.





