Big Creek, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Madrid census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36320. It stands on Coopers Bay Creek. The Survey maps it on the Madrid quadrangle. It stands 200 feet above sea level.

Big Creek within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Madrid quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

70 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Big Creek between 1994 and 2019, burning about 318 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Debris and open burning	22
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	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 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Debris and open burning	19 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20140808-002
28 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20140828-002
4 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190704-3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston 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
Garretts Crossroads	1.6 miles	8
Five Points	2.8 miles	8
Merritts Crossroads	3.0 miles	8
Madrid	3.1 miles	8
Southern Junction	3.3 miles	8
Hodgesville	3.4 miles	8
Rehobeth	3.9 miles	8
Keytons	4.4 miles	8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Big Creek	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058397	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 114256. 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.