Failetown, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Coffeeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36727. It lies near Campbell Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Woods Bluff quadrangle.

Failetown within Clarke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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
1972 USGS Woods Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Waynesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Failetown between 1994 and 2019, burning about 287 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
3 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190903-4
28 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.9 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190917-25
28 June 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 May 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 April 2019	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190402-8
1 April 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke 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 Failetown: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cla 3 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Clarke 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
Campbell	1.9 miles	8
Woods Bluff	2.5 miles	12
Smyer	2.5 miles	12
Cunningham	3.7 miles	12
Rock Springs	3.8 miles	12
Morvin	4.2 miles	8
Opine	4.7 miles	8
Tallahatta Springs	7.5 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156331. 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.