Beulah, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Opp census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36467. It stands on West Fork Shotbag Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kinston quadrangle.

Beulah within Covington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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
1969 USGS Kinston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

72 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Beulah between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,646 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
Arson/incendiarism	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Debris and open burning	12
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	1
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
29 August 2000	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20140707-001
20 July 2010	Debris and open burning	27 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 June 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.1 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 June 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 June 2006	Natural	118 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	WING
28 June 2012	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20120628-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Covington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Beulah: 14 unknowns, 7 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Covington 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
Estothel	2.1 miles	8
Blairs	2.5 miles	8
Onycha	2.9 miles	7
Duvall	3.3 miles	8
Opp	3.9 miles	8
County Line	4.2 miles	8
Blue Springs	4.5 miles	7
Horn Hill	4.6 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 114172. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.