Bertha, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Echo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36353. The Survey maps it on the Clopton quadrangle. It stands 466 feet above sea level.

Bertha within Dale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Clopton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Troy quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Clopton quadrangle1:50000

Fires near this place

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Bertha between 1994 and 2020, burning about 218 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2
Smoking	2
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
24 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190924-20
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2012	Natural	60 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20120707-001
6 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 June 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 June 2007	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 May 2020	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200506-49
23 May 1996	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dale 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
Snells Crossroads	1.2 miles	9
Barefield Crossroads	1.5 miles	9
Bells Crossroads	1.8 miles	9
Clopton	4.6 miles	9
Echo	4.9 miles	8
Snow Hill	6.3 miles	8
Skipperville	6.3 miles	7
Asbury	6.5 miles	7

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Bertha	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058395	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 113974. 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.