Downs, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Davis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36031. The Survey maps it on the Hardaway quadrangle.

Downs within Macon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Hardaway quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Tuskegee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

89 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Downs between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,757 acres in total. None started naturally. 28 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	36
Arson/incendiarism	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Smoking	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
28 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	18 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160928-34
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1998	Smoking	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 July 1995	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 July 2006	Smoking	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO RD 2, AL
24 June 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 June 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macon County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Downs: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Mac 2 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Macon 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
Hardaway	3.7 miles	9
Fort Davis	4.2 miles	8
Cotton Valley	5.2 miles	8
Mount Andrew	6.1 miles	8
Armstrong	6.9 miles	8
Liverpool	7.0 miles	9
Davisville	7.5 miles	8
Cross Keys	7.5 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 117450. 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.