Beacon, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Chapman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36033. The Survey maps it on the Georgiana West quadrangle.

Beacon within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Georgiana West quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

121 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Beacon between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,744 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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	37
Arson/incendiarism	33
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Recreation and ceremony	10
Smoking	3

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
6 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190906-3
6 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190906-2
22 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160911-8
11 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20130911-001
23 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler 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
Providence	0.5 miles	7
Starlington	2.7 miles	7
Shacklesville	4.4 miles	7
Sand Cut	5.9 miles	8
Bolling	6.3 miles	9
Butler Springs	6.5 miles	7
Chapman	6.6 miles	9
Georgiana	6.9 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 134987. 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.