Beachboro, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Princeton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35766. It lies near Stovall Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Princeton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Beachboro within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1888 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1936 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1951 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:24000, 2 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
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Beachboro (historical) between 1997 and 2019, burning about 865 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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	7
Arson/incendiarism	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	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
17 September 1998	Smoking	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 May 2011	Arson/incendiarism	16 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CR 65, AL
14 May 2007	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 April 2010	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 April 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 April 2003	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	4381 CO. RD. 44, AL
16 April 2010	Debris and open burning	510 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 March 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Swaim	1.3 miles	22
Larkins Fork (historical)	1.3 miles	22
Princeton	2.0 miles	22
Baileytown	2.1 miles	22
Larkin	3.9 miles	21
Estillfork	4.4 miles	21
Hollytree	4.4 miles	23
Milan (historical)	4.5 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 139093. 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.