Damascus, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the East Escambia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36426. It stands on Hodge Creek. The Survey maps it on the Damascus quadrangle.

Damascus within Escambia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Damascus quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

97 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Damascus between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,668 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 32 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	32
Arson/incendiarism	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
6 September 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	37 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO RD 64, AL
2 July 2011	Natural	167 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	WHYNOT ROAD, AL
24 June 2000	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 June 2000	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 May 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	130 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160507-5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia 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
Boykin	2.1 miles	7
Marietta	4.8 miles	7
Roberts	6.5 miles	7
Dixie	7.5 miles	9
Rock Hill	8.5 miles	7
Parker Springs	8.5 miles	7
Kirkland	9.3 miles	9
Spring Hill	10.5 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 159481. 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.