Curry, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Sipsey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35503. The Survey maps it on the Sunlight quadrangle. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Curry within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

1893 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1949 USGS Sunlight quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1951 USGS Sunlight quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2000 USGS Sunlight quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

159 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Curry between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,983 acres in total. None started naturally. 60 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
Arson/incendiarism	60
Debris and open burning	58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Recreation and ceremony	14
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	2
Other causes	2
Fireworks	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
9 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	National Forests in Alabama	TUCKER3
8 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	14 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	National Forests in Alabama	TUCKER#2
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	TUCKER#1
30 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	HICKORY LANE, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker 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
Sunlight	1.9 miles	19
Marylee	2.1 miles	19
Burrows Crossroads	4.0 miles	19
South Lowell	4.2 miles	18
Camak Mills (historical)	5.0 miles	18
Marigold	5.4 miles	18
Manchester	5.6 miles	18
Five Points	5.8 miles	18

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 Curry	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5195195	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 159474. 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.