Center Community, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Hanceville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35077. It lies near Stout Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Hanceville quadrangle.

Center Community within Cullman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Hanceville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

90 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Center Community between 1994 and 2019, burning about 428 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 23 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	40
Arson/incendiarism	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	1
Natural	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 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	3.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	4121 CR 565, AL
2 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman 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
Fairview West	0.9 miles	18
Hanceville	2.8 miles	18
Johnsons Crossing	3.6 miles	18
Garden City	3.8 miles	19
Dodge City	4.0 miles	18
White City	4.2 miles	18
Steppville	4.3 miles	19
Wesoda	5.1 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 Q122590049

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 115838. 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.