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Dogwood Acres, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Henderson-Spring Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36035. It stands on Tenmile Branch. The Survey maps it on the Goshen quadrangle.

Dogwood Acres within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

61 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Dogwood Acres between 1994 and 2020, burning about 525 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
9 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150810-003
5 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenance14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 June 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 June 2007Natural7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 June 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionHENDERSON LN, AL
6 May 2020Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200506-21
6 May 2020Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200506-24

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 84 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 84 workings within 5 miles of Dogwood Acres: 45 unknowns, 30 past producers, 5 prospects, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. 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
Pik 3 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Pik 7 Clay ProspectClayProspect
J Bryce Smith ProspectIronProspect
Milton McKeller ProspectIronProspect
O D Warren ProspectIronProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Sanders Hill1.1 miles8
Little Oak1.7 miles8
Henderson2.9 miles8
Pleasant Ridge2.9 miles8
Palmyra3.2 miles8
Goshen3.4 miles8
Hallsville3.6 miles8
Meadow Grove4.4 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 139844. 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.