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Dupree, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Beauregard-Marvyn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36804. The Survey maps it on the Marvyn quadrangle.

Dupree within Lee County

On record in Dupree

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

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.

Fires near this place

122 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Dupree between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,029 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 23 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 burning53
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes1
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
6 September 2010Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160927-14
24 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use50 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160924-21
16 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190831-1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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 Dupree: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Crumpton ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold

Every working recorded in Lee 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
Watoola0.9 miles9
Marvyn2.0 miles9
Whatley Cross Road2.0 miles9
Beauregard5.2 miles13
Hopewell5.2 miles13
Mitchell Crossroads5.4 miles13
Parkers Crossroads6.6 miles13
Griffen Mill6.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156288. 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.