Emory, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Silas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36919. It stands on Patton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Isney quadrangle.

Emory within Choctaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Isney quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Waynesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Emory between 1992 and 2016, burning about 432 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Arson/incendiarism	14
Debris and open burning	12
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Mississippi Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Mississippi Forestry Commission	2391
13 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Mississippi Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	US 8, AL
29 August 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Mississippi Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 1995	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Mississippi Forestry Commission	not named
16 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Mississippi Forestry Commission	not named
1 July 2009	Debris and open burning	6.4 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	HWY 35, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw 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
Isney	2.0 miles	11
Evansboro	5.1 miles	12
Paragon	6.3 miles	12
Water Valley	6.7 miles	12
Souwilpa	6.8 miles	12
Bolinger	7.1 miles	12
Aquilla	7.2 miles	12
Contwell	7.2 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156316. 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.