Burbank, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fruitdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36584. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rounsaville quadrangle.

Burbank within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1942 USGS Deer Park quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Deer Park quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Rounsaville quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

101 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Burbank between 1993 and 2019, burning about 2,368 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 35 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	38
Arson/incendiarism	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Natural	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
8 September 2006	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190906-12
5 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190905-2
17 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190917-14
17 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	GRAY ROAD, AL
31 August 1995	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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
Walley	2.9 miles	14
Epworth	3.4 miles	12
Deer Park	3.9 miles	15
Vinegar Bend	4.0 miles	11
Escatawpa	4.9 miles	12
Four Point	5.9 miles	11
Dwight	8.3 miles	15
Fruitdale	8.7 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 115207. 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.