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Farmersville, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Mosses census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36761. The Survey maps it on the Minter quadrangle.

Farmersville within Lowndes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

52 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Farmersville between 1995 and 2019, burning about 498 acres in total. None 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120926-002
21 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Fostoria3.3 miles11
Braggs5.5 miles11
Macedonia7.5 miles8
Collirene7.7 miles11
Palmyra9.2 miles8
Mount Willing10.2 miles9
Gordonsville10.3 miles9
Gordonville10.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 118206. 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.