Finchburg, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Vredenburgh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36444. The Survey maps it on the Chance quadrangle. It stands 223 feet above sea level.

Finchburg within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Chance quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

45 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Finchburg between 1995 and 2017, burning about 430 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
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
26 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1995	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	5.1 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Finchburg in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2003	Hail	Finchburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Wainwright	1.3 miles	8
Scratch Ankle	4.1 miles	8
Fountain	6.3 miles	8
Hixon	6.6 miles	8
Claiborne	7.1 miles	7
Franklin	7.2 miles	8
Keith	8.3 miles	7
Perdue Hill	8.9 miles	8

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.

Wikipedia article on Finchburg	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15051795	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 156345. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.