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Boromville, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Warriorstand-Creek Stand census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36860. The Survey maps it on the Creek Stand quadrangle.

Boromville within Macon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

254 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Boromville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,644 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 93 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/incendiarism93
Debris and open burning84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Recreation and ceremony18
Smoking14
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160909-19
30 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-1
30 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190928-11
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190927-3
24 September 2008Smoking5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 51, AL
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1996Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macon County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Boromville: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, 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
Hurtsboro MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hurtsboro QuarrySilica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz

Every working recorded in Macon 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
Creek Stand2.1 miles9
Warriorstand5.9 miles8
Hannon6.4 miles9
Society Hill8.3 miles9
Roba9.2 miles9
Little Texas11.6 miles10
Davisville12.2 miles8
Armstrong12.4 miles8

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 BoromvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q86756515The 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 114743. 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.