Central Heights, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cloverdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35633. It stands on Lindsey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Threet quadrangle.

Central Heights within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1924 USGS Gravelly Springs quadrangle1:62500
1924 USGS Gravelly Springs quadrangle1:48000
1926 USGS Gravelly Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Threet quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Threet quadrangle1:24000, 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
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

223 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Central Heights between 1995 and 2020, burning about 958 acres in total. None started naturally. 78 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	91
Arson/incendiarism	78
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Smoking	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	6

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 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lauderdale 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
Sullivan Crossroads	0.7 miles	19
New Hope	1.5 miles	18
Fairview	2.7 miles	17
Lovelace Crossroads	2.9 miles	18
Glen Oaks	3.2 miles	18
Cloverdale	3.2 miles	19
Melvin (historical)	3.5 miles	19
Oakland	3.7 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 115892. 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.