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Dogtown, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Payne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35967. It lies near Straight Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Little River quadrangle. It stands 1,358 feet above sea level.

Dogtown within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

121 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Dogtown between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,151 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 44 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/incendiarism44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Debris and open burning30
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160908-10
6 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-14
4 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160904-1
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20140924-001
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200922-2
22 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Dogtown: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fort Payne QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pearsall QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in DeKalb 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
Sigsbee1.6 miles19
Lickskillet2.3 miles19
Collbran2.7 miles21
Loveless2.8 miles22
Tucker (historical)3.2 miles19
Killian Mill4.2 miles21
Lebanon4.3 miles22
Pine Grove (historical)4.3 miles22

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.

Wikipedia article on DogtownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18352165The 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 157935. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.