Allenton, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pine Apple census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36768. The Survey maps it on the Oak Hill quadrangle.

Allenton within Wilcox County

On record in Allenton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Joshua B. Grace House & Outbuildings, County Road 24, Allentonfederal building survey, 6 photographs
Old Tavern, County Road 24, Allentonfederal building survey, 8 photographs

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Allenton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 681 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning	14
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200908-2
30 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190930-19
3 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	111 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 July 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	42 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Allenton Station	1.6 miles	7
Oak Hill	1.9 miles	7
Hamburg	2.9 miles	7
Caledonia	3.7 miles	7
Rock Springs	4.1 miles	7
McBrydes	4.2 miles	7
Rosebud	4.4 miles	7
Darlington	5.0 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 Allenton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85740920	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 113017. 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.