Catalpa, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Banks-Josie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36081. The Survey maps it on the Saco quadrangle.

Catalpa within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Saco quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Troy quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

46 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Catalpa between 1994 and 2020, burning about 339 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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	20
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 1997	Natural	22 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2000	Natural	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 July 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Catalpa: 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Pik 5 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
Unnamed Deposit	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Deposit	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Sandfield	2.3 miles	8
Lewis	2.8 miles	7
Ezell	2.9 miles	8
Linwood	3.7 miles	8
Jonesville	3.9 miles	7
Dunn	4.1 miles	8
Banks	4.5 miles	7
Monticello	4.7 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 115697. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.