Dyke, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Alexander City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35010. The Survey maps it on the Our Town quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Dyke within Tallapoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1906 USGS Dadeville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Our Town quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

54 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Dyke (historical) between 1994 and 2018, burning about 209 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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	18
Arson/incendiarism	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3

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
30 September 2003	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160924-14
22 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180922-8
19 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2007	Natural	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tallapoosa 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 Dyke (historical): 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium. 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
	Dixie Farms Deposit	Titanium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Tallapoosa 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
Bulgers	1.3 miles	11
Rover (historical)	1.8 miles	11
Our Town	2.0 miles	11
Wind Creek Farms	2.4 miles	11
Mount Zion	4.1 miles	11
Island Home (historical)	4.8 miles	11
River Bend (historical)	5.3 miles	12
Oakfuskee (historical)	5.3 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 137408. 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.