Bethlehem, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Ramer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36046. The Survey maps it on the Sellers quadrangle.

Bethlehem within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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 Letohatchee quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Sellers quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

77 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Bethlehem between 1994 and 2020, burning about 646 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Arson/incendiarism	12
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	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
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CR 97/56, AL
11 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2015	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20150804-001
27 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	160 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	3845 CR 97, AL
27 August 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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
Mount Carmel	1.3 miles	11
Sellers	2.2 miles	11
Strata	2.9 miles	11
Davenport	3.4 miles	11
Fleta	3.9 miles	11
Naftel	4.2 miles	11
Pine Acres	4.7 miles	11
Ada	5.1 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 114107. 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.