Bethel, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Rogersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35610. The Survey maps it on the Union Hill quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bethel within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1936 USGS Union Hill quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Union Hill quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Union Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 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

65 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Bethel (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 362 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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	34
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Other causes	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2007	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	FORK OF THE ROAD
2 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160902-3
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
30 August 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2006	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
15 August 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 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
Powell	1.4 miles	16
Sugar (historical)	1.5 miles	14
Westmoreland (historical)	2.3 miles	14
Grassy	3.8 miles	16
Anderson	3.9 miles	16
New Georgia (historical)	5.4 miles	14
Hurricane (historical)	7.0 miles	16
Cedar Hill (historical)	7.3 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 145066. 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.