Culebra, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Waverly census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36879. It stands on Pretty Creek. The Survey maps it on the Camp Hill SE quadrangle.

Culebra within Chambers County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1906 USGS Dadeville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Camp Hill SE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Camp Hill SE quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

118 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Culebra between 1994 and 2020, burning about 912 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 19 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	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Arson/incendiarism	19
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	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
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160930-12
29 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160925-8
25 September 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180923-4
23 September 2016	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160923-19
20 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190920-29

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Culebra: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Doc Heard Prospect	Mica	Past Producer
	Rippatoe Placer	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Chambers 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
Kendall Crossroads	2.0 miles	12
New Harmony	2.5 miles	12
Judson	3.0 miles	12
Blackman	3.6 miles	12
Sturkie	3.8 miles	12
Jones Mill	4.7 miles	12
Moorefield	4.9 miles	12
Sikes	5.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156237. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.