Falconhead, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Florence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35634. It stands on Brotherick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pruitton quadrangle.

Falconhead within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1914 USGS Muscle Shoals quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Muscle Shoals quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Pruitton quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Pruitton quadrangle1:24000, 3 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

138 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Falconhead between 1994 and 2020, burning about 617 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 38 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	62
Arson/incendiarism	38
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	2

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
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190915-6
15 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	9.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lauderdale 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
Bailey Springs	0.7 miles	17
Kilburn (historical)	1.5 miles	17
Lakeside Acres	1.5 miles	18
Lauderdale Beach	1.8 miles	18
Shoals Acres	2.0 miles	18
Emerald Shores	2.2 miles	18
Arnot (historical)	2.2 miles	17
Holloway	2.2 miles	17

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 Q122559030

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 145165. 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.