Beaver Town, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Carrollton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35442. It stands on Hennon Branch. The Survey maps it on the Aliceville North quadrangle.

Beaver Town within Pickens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Aliceville North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

102 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Beaver Town between 1994 and 2020, burning about 804 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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	42
Arson/incendiarism	17
Recreation and ceremony	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
28 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2000	Smoking	14 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	47 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20150923-002
22 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2015	Debris and open burning	27 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20150918-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens 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
Sapps	2.4 miles	11
Garden	2.8 miles	11
McMullen	3.5 miles	11
Pickensville	4.1 miles	11
Cunningham	5.2 miles	11
Aliceville	5.3 miles	11
Dillburg	5.3 miles	11
Beasley	5.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 113751. 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.