Baileytown, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Holly Pond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35055. The Survey maps it on the Simcoe quadrangle.

Baileytown within Cullman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1888 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Simcoe quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

34 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Baileytown between 1997 and 2016, burning about 225 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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
30 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160920-3
15 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160915-8
6 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NER-20140806-001
5 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NER-20140829-002
26 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman 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
Holly Pond	2.4 miles	19
North Walter	2.5 miles	17
New Hope	3.0 miles	17
Walter	3.2 miles	19
Walkers Corner	4.5 miles	17
Welti	4.5 miles	17
Berlin	4.5 miles	17
Riverside	4.8 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 113367. 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.