Bartlett, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Douglas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35957. It stands on Lemon Branch. The Survey maps it on the Douglas quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bartlett within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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.

1885 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1888 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1936 USGS High Point quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

41 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Bartlett (historical) between 1997 and 2016, burning about 592 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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	16
Arson/incendiarism	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
28 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160928-10
24 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 June 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall 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
Needmore	0.8 miles	23
Whitesville	1.4 miles	23
Horton	2.3 miles	22
Friendship (historical)	2.9 miles	22
Red Apple (historical)	3.1 miles	23
Reedbrake (historical)	3.5 miles	22
Mount Hebron	3.6 miles	22
Douglas	3.6 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 139330. 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.