Dudleys, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cottonton-Seale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36875. The Survey maps it on the Seale quadrangle.

Dudleys within Russell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

1914 USGS Seale quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1950 USGS Seale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Seale quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Seale quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Seale quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Tuskegee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

179 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Dudleys between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,453 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 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	77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Arson/incendiarism	17
Recreation and ceremony	14
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Smoking	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Natural	4

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
9 September 2002	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160929-3
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160928-39
25 September 2010	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190920-4
13 September 2010	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2016	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160910-18

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Russell 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
Seale	1.6 miles	20
Colbert	2.4 miles	20
Sandfort	2.9 miles	20
Villula	3.0 miles	20
Hyram	4.4 miles	20
Hatchechubbee	4.6 miles	9
Lato	5.3 miles	20
Parkmanville	6.1 miles	20

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 Q122562074

The 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 133234. 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.