BlockElk Estates, Alabama
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Salem census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35614. It stands on Lentzville Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cairo quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1936 USGS Cairo quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Cairo quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
63 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Elk Estates between 1994 and 2020, burning about 520 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 | 31 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190924-28 |
| 2 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 200 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190916-8 |
| 5 August 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 August 2005 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160701-18 |
| 27 May 2007 | Smoking | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 May 1998 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lentzville | 1.2 miles | 15 | |
| Blue Springs Park | 1.3 miles | 15 | |
| Poplar Creek | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| Hickory Hills | 2.6 miles | 15 | |
| Shoemaker Springs (historical) | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Coxey | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Cairo | 3.0 miles | 15 | |
| Shanghai | 3.1 miles | 15 |
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 Q122588914 | 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 137828. 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.