Curbville, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It lies in ZIP code area 36756. The Survey maps it on the Marion North quadrangle.

Curbville within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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
1979 USGS Marion North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Marion North quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

122 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Curbville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 665 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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	39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Arson/incendiarism	9
Smoking	6
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	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
8 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190929-19
24 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190924-8
23 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Smoking	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2010	Debris and open burning	26 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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
Folsom	2.5 miles	10
Morgan Springs	3.5 miles	10
North Perry	5.7 miles	11
Heiberger	5.7 miles	11
Marion	5.9 miles	11
Zimmerman	6.3 miles	9
Ironville	6.6 miles	11
Jericho	6.9 miles	11

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 Q122597555

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 162658. 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.