Atlas, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Killen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35645. It stands on East Fork Sixmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pruitton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Atlas within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1914 USGS Muscle Shoals quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Muscle Shoals quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Pruitton quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Pruitton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

127 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Atlas (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 684 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 33 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	59
Arson/incendiarism	33
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	3
Natural	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
29 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	15792 COUNTY ROAD 33, AL
25 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20140925-004
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	COUNTY ROAD 33, AL
16 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190915-6
15 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	9.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lauderdale 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
Parkertown	0.2 miles	17
North Carolina (historical)	1.2 miles	17
Stutts (historical)	1.3 miles	17
McGee (historical)	2.2 miles	17
Holloway	2.2 miles	17
Antioch	2.3 miles	17
Arnot (historical)	3.3 miles	17
Bailey Springs	3.5 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 166171. 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.