Beach Grove, 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 Douglass Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wheeler Dam quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Beach Grove within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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 Rogersville quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Rogersville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Wheeler Dam quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Wheeler Dam quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Wheeler Dam quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

101 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Beach Grove (historical) between 1994 and 2016, burning about 320 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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	47
Arson/incendiarism	22
Recreation and ceremony	12
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4

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
21 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	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
Big Oak	0.8 miles	17
Center Star	1.5 miles	17
Aqua Vista	1.5 miles	17
Houstontown	1.6 miles	17
Pinedale Acres	1.8 miles	17
Brooks Acres	2.4 miles	18
Lingerlost	3.0 miles	18
Marmion (historical)	3.1 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 145057. 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.