Belew, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lexington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35648. It stands on Keaty Branch. The Survey maps it on the Center Hill quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Belew within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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 Center Hill quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Center Hill quadrangle1:24000, 3 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
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

80 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Belew (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 468 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 21 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	33
Arson/incendiarism	21
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 2000	Natural	10 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	15792 COUNTY ROAD 33, AL
28 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	56 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	SANTINI
25 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20140925-004
19 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	COUNTY ROAD 33, AL
17 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Tennessee Division of Forestry	GREEN FIRE
14 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Tennessee Division of Forestry	KENNEDY FIRE
7 August 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	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
Slabtown (historical)	0.8 miles	17
Sweet Gum	1.4 miles	17
Palestine (historical)	1.5 miles	17
Arkdell	2.2 miles	17
Center Hill	2.5 miles	17
Upper Green Hill	3.6 miles	17
Posey (historical)	3.9 miles	17
Lexington	3.9 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 166173. 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.