Camp Spring, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Mount Hope census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35651. It stands on Stinson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Landersville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Camp Spring within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

1936 USGS Landersville quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS Moulton quadrangle1:48000
1936 USGS Mt Hope quadrangle1:62500
1940 USGS Mt Hope quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Landersville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000
2000 USGS Landersville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

60 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Camp Spring (historical) between 1993 and 2016, burning about 1,349 acres in total. None started naturally. 47 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/incendiarism	47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	RIDGE ROAD
19 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	WILDERNESS
15 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	21 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	22 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	National Forests in Alabama	BYLER #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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
Hickory Grove	0.8 miles	18
Mount Hope	2.5 miles	18
Needmore	2.9 miles	18
Youngtown	3.6 miles	18
Landersville	4.2 miles	18
Muck City	6.7 miles	18
Concord	7.0 miles	15
Flat Rock	7.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 162972. 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.