Big Oak, 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 35553. It stands on Coon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Black Pond quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Big Oak 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 Black Pond quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000
2000 USGS Black Pond quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

142 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Big Oak (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,395 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 62 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	62
Debris and open burning	42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Recreation and ceremony	12
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	1
Fireworks	1
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 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	National Forests in Alabama	TUCKER3
8 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	National Forests in Alabama	TUCKER#2
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	TUCKER#1
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

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
Falls City	0.3 miles	11
Black Pond	4.6 miles	11
Arley	5.5 miles	11
Curtis Crossroads	5.6 miles	11
Sachs Bottoms (historical)	6.0 miles	11
Poplar Springs	6.1 miles	11
Corinth (historical)	6.6 miles	11
Bickford (historical)	7.1 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2680795. 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.