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Booneville, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the McCullough-Huxford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36502. It stands on Oxhead Branch. The Survey maps it on the McCullough quadrangle.

Booneville within Escambia 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.

Fires near this place

163 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Booneville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,348 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 52 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/incendiarism52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Debris and open burning44
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150907-002
4 September 2000Natural9.6 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140923-001
12 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150807-002
25 August 2000Smoking2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140824-001
23 August 1996Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia 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
Jack Springs3.8 miles11
McCullough4.7 miles11
Poarch7.0 miles11
Huxford7.6 miles10
Ewing Farms8.2 miles11
Mount Gillis8.8 miles11
Martinville9.9 miles9
Freemanville9.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156096. 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.