Bagley Meadows, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Robbins Crossroads census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35062. The Survey maps it on the Creel quadrangle.

Bagley Meadows within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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.

1889 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1907 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1951 USGS Creel quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Creel quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

258 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 258 fires within 5 miles of Bagley Meadows between 1994 and 2018, burning about 3,222 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 111 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
Arson/incendiarism	111
Debris and open burning	100
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	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
7 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1995	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160928-22
26 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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
Bagley	0.4 miles	21
Petes Crossroads	0.5 miles	21
Robbins Crossroads	1.3 miles	28
Crestview Estates	2.1 miles	24
Briarcliff Estates	2.1 miles	24
Mill Creek Estates	2.2 miles	24
West Sayre	2.8 miles	28
Brents Cross Roads	3.0 miles	28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1700534. 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.