Archer, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Carrollton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35447. The Survey maps it on the Reform SW quadrangle.

Archer within Pickens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Reform SW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

67 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Archer between 1994 and 2020, burning about 542 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2000	Smoking	14 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2000	Debris and open burning	165 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens 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
Pine Grove	3.5 miles	11
Pickensville	5.4 miles	11
Sapps	6.0 miles	11
Delma	6.4 miles	12
Macedonia	6.5 miles	12
Beaver Town	7.1 miles	11
Carrollton	7.1 miles	12
McShan	7.2 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 135463. 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.