Burnt Corn, Alabama
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 36460. The Survey maps it on the Burnt Corn quadrangle.
On record in Burnt Corn
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Watkins House, State Highway 30, Burnt Cornfederal building survey, 3 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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 Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Burnt Corn quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
75 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Burnt Corn between 1994 and 2019, burning about 522 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 14 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burnt Corn in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 1997: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burnt Corn | $1,500 | no account filed |
| December 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burnt Corn | $1,000 | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Street | 2.3 miles | 7 | |
| Harpers Store | 3.1 miles | 7 | |
| Fowler | 4.2 miles | 8 | |
| Ramah | 4.2 miles | 7 | |
| Fairnelson | 4.5 miles | 8 | |
| Brantley Crossing | 4.5 miles | 7 | |
| Bermuda | 4.8 miles | 8 | |
| Stokes | 5.2 miles | 7 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 115265. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.



