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East Chapman, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Chapman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36033. It stands on Martin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Georgiana East quadrangle.

East Chapman within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

150 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of East Chapman between 1994 and 2020, burning about 862 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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 burning50
Equipment and vehicle use40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism15
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking3
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-3
6 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-2
6 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190903-3
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-7
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler 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 East Chapman: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
But 5 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Butler 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
Chapman0.9 miles9
Brushy Creek1.4 miles9
Avant3.1 miles8
Georgiana3.1 miles9
Bolling4.1 miles9
Shell5.0 miles8
Rhodes6.0 miles8
Industry6.1 miles7

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 Q122560812The 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 117744. 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.