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Alliance, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Notasulga census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36083. The Survey maps it on the Little Texas quadrangle.

Alliance within Macon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

193 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Alliance between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,286 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 55 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 burning55
Arson/incendiarism55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Recreation and ceremony14
Smoking13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20170909-2
6 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCR 24, AL
22 September 2016Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160922-3
2 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minor30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140901-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macon 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
Little Texas2.6 miles10
Pleasant Hill3.2 miles10
Society Hill7.2 miles9
Tuskegee7.9 miles11
Notasulga8.0 miles11
Chehaw8.3 miles11
Clough10.7 miles9
Seasha11.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 113023. 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.