Ferry Shores, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Rogersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35652. It sits by Saltpeter Cave Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Rogersville quadrangle.

Ferry Shores within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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 Rogersville quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Rogersville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Thorntontown quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Rogersville quadrangle1:24000, 2 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
1974 USGS Rogersville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

38 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Ferry Shores between 1995 and 2019, burning about 429 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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
Arson/incendiarism	15
Debris and open burning	13
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	LITTLE ELK ROAD, AL
19 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190919-11
14 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1999	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	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
Thornton	0.4 miles	17
Sharps Shores	0.4 miles	17
Ramblewood Shores	0.8 miles	17
Roberson Beach	1.3 miles	17
Dells Vista Shores	1.9 miles	17
Elk River View	2.0 miles	17
Pinedale Home Sites	2.6 miles	17
Poplar Springs Branch	3.1 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 Q122560845

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 118264. 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.