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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.

Ackerville within Wilcox County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

34 since 1994

Regional 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/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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 ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.7 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.1 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilcox 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
McBrydes3.5 miles7
Snow Hill3.6 miles11
Hamburg4.0 miles7
Darlington4.9 miles7
Furman5.5 miles11
Rock Springs5.7 miles7
Allenton6.4 miles7
Rosebud7.2 miles7

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 AckervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4674267The 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.