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Dixie Springs, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Oakman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35579. It stands on Martin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Parrish quadrangle.

Dixie Springs within Walker County

On record in Dixie Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

187 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Dixie Springs between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,534 acres in total. None started naturally. 69 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 burning72
Arson/incendiarism69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160906-9
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190929-15
28 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-36
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140925-002
21 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Oakman0.9 miles17
Marietta1.5 miles17
Kings Mill1.6 miles17
Providence2.0 miles17
Mountain Valley (historical)2.3 miles17
Gayosa2.4 miles17
Stephenson Crossing2.6 miles17
Enoe2.6 miles17

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 Q122548226The 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 156273. 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.