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Canty, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pine Level census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36052. The Survey maps it on the Teasleys Mill quadrangle.

Canty within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Canty between 1994 and 2020, burning about 338 acres in total. 1 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1

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
8 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120926-001
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190918-6
10 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2000Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 July 2000Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 June 2007Natural3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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
Teasleys Mill1.6 miles10
Shepherd Hill1.8 miles10
Carters Hill2.7 miles10
Mamie2.8 miles10
Downing4.4 miles10
Davis Crossroads5.3 miles10
Gibson6.2 miles10
Pine Level6.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156147. 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.