Ferncliff, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Section census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35771. It lies near Goodman Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Dutton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Ferncliff within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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.

1886 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Dutton quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Dutton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Dutton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

90 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Ferncliff (historical) between 1995 and 2019, burning about 578 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Arson/incendiarism	17
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160920-1
20 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2019	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190919-26
15 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160915-14
15 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Hodge	1.0 miles	21
Dutton	2.8 miles	21
Section	3.0 miles	21
Roseberry	3.2 miles	21
Lakeview Shores	3.3 miles	20
Webb Addition	4.6 miles	21
Gray (historical)	4.6 miles	23
Index (historical)	4.9 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 139163. 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.