Birdsong, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Baileyton-Joppa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35058. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Simcoe quadrangle.

Birdsong within Cullman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1888 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Simcoe quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

37 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Birdsong between 1997 and 2019, burning about 187 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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	19
Arson/incendiarism	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	1885 COUNTY ROAD 1559, AL
24 September 2010	Smoking	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160923-9
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	COUNTY ROAD 1561, AL
18 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	COUNTY ROAD 1561, AL
14 September 2018	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180914-2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman 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
Brooklyn	2.1 miles	19
Baileyton	2.2 miles	20
Fairview	2.3 miles	18
New Hope	2.8 miles	17
County Line	4.6 miles	18
Simcoe	4.9 miles	17
Holly Pond	5.1 miles	19
Union Grove	5.1 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 114371. 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.