Bear Creek, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Littleville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35674. It stands on Smith Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tuscumbia quadrangle.

Bear Creek within Colbert County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

1924 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:48000
1924 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:62500
1926 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1936 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Tuscumbia 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 Tuscumbia quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

190 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Bear Creek between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,038 acres in total. None started naturally. 49 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	90
Arson/incendiarism	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Recreation and ceremony	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	24 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colbert 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
Milk Springs	1.7 miles	18
Pine Bluff Estates	1.8 miles	18
Colbert Heights	2.1 miles	18
Underwood Heights	2.2 miles	18
White House Springs	2.2 miles	18
Melrose	2.5 miles	18
Flatwoods	2.7 miles	20
New Bethel	3.2 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 166013. 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.