Cedrum, Alabama
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Townley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35587. It stands on West Fork Lost Creek. The Survey maps it on the Townley quadrangle.
On record in Cedrum
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Boshell's Milllisted 1975 · 0.2 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1893 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1949 USGS Townley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Townley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
189 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Cedrum between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,557 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 88 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 88 |
| Debris and open burning | 52 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1999 | Natural | 15 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160906-5 |
| 6 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.4 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holly Grove | 1.6 miles | 18 | |
| Townley | 1.7 miles | 18 | |
| Pocahontas | 2.4 miles | 18 | |
| Saragossa | 4.1 miles | 18 | |
| Hilliard | 4.5 miles | 18 | |
| Carbon Hill | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Pleasant Grove | 5.3 miles | 17 | |
| New Jagger | 5.4 miles | 17 |
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 Q122550211 | 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 115823. 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.






