Elko, Alabama

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Huntsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35806. It lies near Ward Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Madison quadrangle.

Elko within Madison County

On record in Elko

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Saturn V Space VehicleNational Historic Landmark · listed 1978 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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.

1888 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Madison quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Madison quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Madison quadrangle1:24000, 2 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
1964 USGS Madison quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Madison quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Elko between 1997 and 2011, burning about 59 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
19 September 1997	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SUNSET BLVD, AL
3 June 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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
Sherwood Park	0.9 miles	27
Skyline Acres	1.9 miles	27
Lynwood Gardens	2.0 miles	27
Green Acres	2.4 miles	27
Westlawn	2.4 miles	27
Indian Hills	2.6 miles	27
Summit Place	2.6 miles	27
Madison Highlands	2.6 miles	27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156305. 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.