Aimwell, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sweet Water census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36782. The Survey maps it on the Nanafalia quadrangle. It stands 262 feet above sea level.

Aimwell within Marengo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Nanafalia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

64 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Aimwell between 1994 and 2020, burning about 821 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Debris and open burning	19
Recreation and ceremony	7
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
7 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200920-3
17 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190912-11
27 August 2000	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190708-3
28 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	86 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Coxheath	2.3 miles	10
Sweet Water	2.6 miles	10
Geneva	4.0 miles	9
Nanafalia	4.4 miles	10
Moss (historical)	4.8 miles	9
Exmoor	4.8 miles	10
Half Acre	5.1 miles	9
Barrons (historical)	5.1 miles	8

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 Aimwell	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4697189	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 112946. 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.