Cedar Plains, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Falkville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35622. It stands on Cedar Plains Hill. The Survey maps it on the Falkville quadrangle.

Cedar Plains within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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 Cullman quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1927 USGS Falkville quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Falkville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1951 USGS Falkville quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

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 Cedar Plains between 1994 and 2020, burning about 418 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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	13
Arson/incendiarism	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	3
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
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160929-21
2 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan 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
Massey	1.4 miles	18
Lebanon	1.4 miles	20
Camp Ground	3.1 miles	18
Thomas Place	3.1 miles	20
Penn	4.6 miles	18
Falkville	4.7 miles	20
Leesdale	4.8 miles	19
Andrews Chapel	5.0 miles	18

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 Q122594940

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 156158. 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.