Buckhorn, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Banks-Josie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36005. It stands on Bridge Creek. The Survey maps it on the Banks quadrangle.

Buckhorn within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Banks quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Troy quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Buckhorn between 1994 and 2019, burning about 254 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	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
30 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190930-12
18 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 July 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 June 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 May 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 May 2005	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 May 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 May 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Buckhorn: 23 unknowns, 9 occurrences, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Barbour County Brown Iron Ore Deposits	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	1944
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Shiloh	1.8 miles	8
Monticello	1.8 miles	7
Enon	3.3 miles	8
Pronto	4.4 miles	7
Banks	4.4 miles	7
Josie	5.1 miles	8
Richland	5.2 miles	8
Broad View	6.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156127. 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.