Data, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Centreville-Brent census division. The Survey maps it on the Pondville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Data within Bibb 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 Pondville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Pondville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

99 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Data (historical) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,492 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 34 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	34
Debris and open burning	21
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2

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 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	EOLINE, AL
22 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	148 acres	National Forests in Alabama	OK COMPARTMENT 49
18 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	413 acres	National Forests in Alabama	OK 745
16 September 2000	Natural	27 acres	National Forests in Alabama	LOW GAP
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	National Forests in Alabama	MATCH
6 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	DAKOTA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb 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
Egypt (historical)	3.1 miles	20
Little Hope	3.5 miles	20
Pondville	4.5 miles	11
Spencer	4.5 miles	11
Mertz	5.1 miles	11
Harmon	5.2 miles	20
Eoline	5.3 miles	11
Ingate	5.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 161897. 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.