Carloss, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Carrollton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35447. It stands on Stratton Branch. The Survey maps it on the Carrollton quadrangle.

Carloss within Pickens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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 West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Carrollton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

80 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Carloss between 1995 and 2020, burning about 593 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170919-3
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20140915-001
13 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160913-7

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens 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
Owens	1.3 miles	12
Stansel	2.3 miles	12
Carrollton	2.5 miles	12
Lois Spring	4.5 miles	11
Beards Mill	5.4 miles	12
Beasley	5.8 miles	11
Reform	6.6 miles	12
Bostic	6.7 miles	10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122592824

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 135478. 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.