Asahel, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Coy-Fatama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36435. The Survey maps it on the Hybart quadrangle.

Asahel within Wilcox County

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
1973 USGS Hybart quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

85 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Asahel between 1994 and 2020, burning about 510 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
30 September 1994	Smoking	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190917-12
13 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.9 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1997	Natural	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2000	Smoking	under an acre	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
Coy	2.9 miles	7
Nellie	3.1 miles	7
Dry Forks	3.7 miles	8
Bellview	3.8 miles	8
Sheppard	4.3 miles	7
Coal Bluff	5.4 miles	7
Pebble Hill	6.4 miles	8
Lower Peach Tree	6.9 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.

Wikidata item Q122560889

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 156004. 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.