Caro, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35773. The Survey maps it on the Ardmore quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Caro within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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.

1888 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

71 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Caro (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 678 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Smoking	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
4 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
2 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20150915-001
14 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160914-5
27 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2007	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone 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
Bethel	0.6 miles	22
Pine Dale	1.8 miles	22
Sand Spring (historical)	2.2 miles	22
Cedar Hill	2.6 miles	22
Wooley Springs (historical)	2.7 miles	22
Oak Grove	2.7 miles	22
Pisgah	3.4 miles	22
Ardmore	4.1 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 137809. 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.