Booger Tree, 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 35553. It stands on Godsey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Haleyville East quadrangle. It stands 846 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Booger Tree 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.

1936 USGS Delmar quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Haleyville East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

104 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Booger Tree (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 607 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 40 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	40
Debris and open burning	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	3
Other causes	2

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
7 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180903-4
22 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1995	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	4.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160913-3

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
Bethel (historical)	3.2 miles	13
Scoggins Bottoms (historical)	3.3 miles	13
DeFoor	3.5 miles	13
Ashridge	4.2 miles	11
Pigeon Roost (historical)	4.3 miles	11
Pleasant Hill	4.6 miles	11
Blue Springs	4.7 miles	11
Delmar	4.8 miles	13

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.

Wikidata item Q14678994

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 2680801. 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.