BlockAllenville, Alabama
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Newbern census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36738. The Survey maps it on the Gallion quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Gallion quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
23 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Allenville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. None 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 burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20120706-003 |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 113019. 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.