Bickford, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Double Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35578. The Survey maps it on the Poplar Springs quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bickford within Winston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Poplar Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000
2000 USGS Poplar Springs quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

173 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Bickford (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,590 acres in total. None started naturally. 68 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	68
Debris and open burning	61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Recreation and ceremony	17
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Other causes	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2010	Arson/incendiarism	16 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.7 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190930-11
3 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	52 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160929-16

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winston 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
Poplar Springs	2.4 miles	11
Natis	3.0 miles	11
Ashbank	3.9 miles	11
Kaeiser Bottoms (historical)	4.9 miles	11
Black Pond	5.3 miles	11
Curtis Crossroads	6.1 miles	11
Big Oak (historical)	7.1 miles	11
Tolen Hill (historical)	7.1 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2680794. 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.