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Alabama Fork, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35614. The Survey maps it on the Athens quadrangle.

Alabama Fork within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

84 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Alabama Fork between 1994 and 2020, burning about 452 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning51
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
5 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-7
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190925-15
23 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150902-001
2 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone 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 Alabama Fork: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Gilbert MinePhosphorus-PhosphatesProducer

Every working recorded in Limestone 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
Hays Mill2.0 miles20
Bonneville2.0 miles22
Piney Chapel2.1 miles22
Meadowbrook2.3 miles22
Lakewood2.4 miles22
Cross Key2.7 miles15
Carey2.7 miles20
Athens3.4 miles22

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.

Wikidata item Q122550951The 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 155983. 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.