Consul, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Thomaston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36783. The Survey maps it on the Thomaston East quadrangle. It stands 239 feet above sea level.

Consul within Marengo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Thomaston East quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Consul between 1994 and 2020, burning about 745 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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
17 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2006	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1994	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	28 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20120704-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo 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
Kings (historical)	0.9 miles	9
Wootens (historical)	1.8 miles	9
McKinley	2.4 miles	9
Old White Hall (historical)	3.6 miles	9
Thomaston	4.5 miles	10
Crenshaw (historical)	4.7 miles	9
Lyon (historical)	7.0 miles	9
McCorkle (historical)	7.2 miles	9

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.

Wikipedia article on Consul	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5164540	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 156208. 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.