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D'Olive, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bay Minette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36507. The Survey maps it on the Bay Minette South quadrangle.

D'Olive within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

Fires near this place

287 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 287 fires within 5 miles of D'Olive between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,477 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 71 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 burning114
Arson/incendiarism71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking6
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140924-001
2 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140902-003
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150918-001
16 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Douglasville0.6 miles13
Bay Minette1.5 miles13
Eastwood2.7 miles13
Carpenter3.8 miles13
Pine Grove3.9 miles18
Crossroads4.2 miles13
Whitehouse Forks4.4 miles13
Pinchona5.3 miles16

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 Q122573044The 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 155046. 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.