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Dora Junction, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Dora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35148. The Survey maps it on the Sipsey quadrangle.

Dora Junction 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.

Fires near this place

234 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 234 fires within 5 miles of Dora Junction between 1994 and 2018, burning about 2,324 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 98 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/incendiarism98
Debris and open burning91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony14
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Other causes4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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
5 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-22
25 September 2010Other causes2.0 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
Lorton0.4 miles21
Sumiton0.7 miles21
Hull0.9 miles21
Sloss1.1 miles21
Rocky Hollow1.9 miles21
Kershaw2.5 miles21
Dora2.7 miles24
Drummond2.7 miles21

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 Q122594902The 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 117379. 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.