BlockCleveland Mills, Alabama
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Sprott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36756. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sprott quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Sprott quadrangle1:24000
- 1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Sprott quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
73 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Cleveland Mills between 1994 and 2019, burning about 746 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | CO ROAD 90, AL |
| 2 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2000 | Natural | 25 acres | National Forests in Alabama | BULL BAT ROAD |
| 13 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190913-14 |
| 12 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190912-25 |
| 12 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190912-26 |
| 12 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190912-27 |
| 8 August 2006 | Natural | 177 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SPROTT |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 159416. 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.