Dillburg, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Carrollton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35447. It stands on Little Lubbub Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cunningham quadrangle.

Dillburg within Pickens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Cunningham quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

70 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Dillburg between 1994 and 2020, burning about 402 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	10
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2000	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180805-1
28 August 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens 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
Beasley	1.3 miles	11
Cunningham	1.4 miles	11
Lois Spring	2.6 miles	11
Hickory	2.9 miles	11
Sapps	4.1 miles	11
Stevens	4.6 miles	11
Carrollton	4.7 miles	12
Olney	4.9 miles	11

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 Q122544078

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 156271. 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.