Debardeleben, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Empire census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35063. It lies near Briceston Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Sipsey quadrangle.

Debardeleben within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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 Sipsey quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1951 USGS Sipsey quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Sipsey quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

240 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 240 fires within 5 miles of Debardeleben between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,718 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 105 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	105
Debris and open burning	78
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Recreation and ceremony	11
Other causes	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Fireworks	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
7 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20140928-001
26 September 2019	Natural	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190926-10
25 September 2010	Other causes	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

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
Empire	0.9 miles	21
Drummond	1.1 miles	21
Creel	1.3 miles	23
York Mountain	2.4 miles	23
Dilworth	2.6 miles	21
Black Warrior Town (historical)	2.7 miles	21
Coon Creek	2.7 miles	21
Hull	3.2 miles	21

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 Q122548438

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 157372. 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.