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Boar Tush, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Haleyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35565. The Survey maps it on the Haleyville East quadrangle. It stands 2,277 feet above sea level.

Boar Tush within Winston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

Fires near this place

85 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Boar Tush between 1995 and 2020, burning about 671 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 37 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/incendiarism37
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20130915-001
15 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1999Arson/incendiarism17 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 July 2000Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winston County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Boar Tush: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Delmar1.7 miles13
Haleyville2.4 miles13
Bethel (historical)2.7 miles13
Batts Nest (historical)2.8 miles13
DeFoor3.5 miles13
Donaldson Mill4.1 miles14
Needmore4.5 miles13
Glen Mary4.6 miles11

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 Boar TushAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4931269The 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 151692. 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.