Belknap, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Carlowville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36775. The Survey maps it on the Elm Bluff quadrangle.

Belknap within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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 Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Carlowville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Carlowville NE quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Elm Bluff quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

31 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Belknap between 1995 and 2019, burning about 308 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	1
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
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190930-9
27 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas 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
Kings	0.9 miles	11
Berlin	3.7 miles	13
Elm Bluff	4.8 miles	12
Swink	4.8 miles	11
Sardis	5.8 miles	12
Pleasant Hill	6.1 miles	11
Mount Nebo	6.1 miles	13
Dawsons	6.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 113847. 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.