Dunbar, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Millry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36558. The Survey maps it on the Millry North quadrangle.

Dunbar within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Millry North quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Waynesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

110 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Dunbar between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,263 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 34 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	41
Arson/incendiarism	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	2
Smoking	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
6 September 2000	Natural	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2010	Debris and open burning	33 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1995	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	74 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Dunbar: 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
	Was 2 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Healing Springs	3.2 miles	11
Millry	3.5 miles	11
Shady Grove	4.0 miles	12
Mehaffey	5.0 miles	13
Chapel Hill	5.1 miles	12
Koenton	5.3 miles	11
Bashi	6.0 miles	11
Loper	7.1 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156285. 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.