Bethel, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lyeffion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36033. The Survey maps it on the Bethel quadrangle.

Bethel within Conecuh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Bethel quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

76 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Bethel between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,181 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 26 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	27
Arson/incendiarism	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
22 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2000	Smoking	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 June 1998	Debris and open burning	3.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20120627-001
24 June 2002	Natural	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 June 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20140507-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conecuh 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
Mixonville	1.8 miles	7
Deans	3.1 miles	7
Commerce	3.1 miles	7
Skinnerton	8.3 miles	8
Bowles	9.4 miles	8
Cooks Crossroads	9.7 miles	8
Lyeffion	11.6 miles	8
Fowler	12.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 114005. 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.