Coker Heights, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Coker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35452. It stands on Nubbin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Coker quadrangle.

Coker Heights within Tuscaloosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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 Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:62500
1926 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Coker quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

70 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Coker Heights between 1994 and 2017, burning about 437 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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	24
Arson/incendiarism	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	4
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
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
5 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20130915-001
22 August 2008	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	COUNTY ROAD 19, AL
22 August 2006	Natural	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa 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
Pine Circle	0.4 miles	15
Coker	0.4 miles	15
Westhill	0.6 miles	18
Bel Air Estates	0.9 miles	18
Westland	1.1 miles	15
Western Hills Estates	1.2 miles	18
Western Hills	1.2 miles	18
Valliwood	1.5 miles	15

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 Q122542689

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 1700471. 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.