Davisville, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Warriorstand-Creek Stand census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36083. The Survey maps it on the Davisville quadrangle.

Davisville within Macon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Davisville quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Tuskegee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

195 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 195 fires within 5 miles of Davisville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 3,075 acres in total. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism	71
Debris and open burning	62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Smoking	13
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	2
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2010	Smoking	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	19 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO ROAD 45, AL
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	6.3 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190923-20
15 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2010	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macon 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
Cotton Valley	2.7 miles	8
Mount Andrew	3.7 miles	8
Seasha	6.1 miles	11
Armstrong	6.1 miles	8
Fort Davis	6.2 miles	8
Warriorstand	6.3 miles	8
Liverpool	6.4 miles	9
Tuskegee	6.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 117145. 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.