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Fish Pond, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35643. It stands on Dry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle.

Fish Pond within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

99 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Fish Pond between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,371 acres in total. None started naturally. 37 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/incendiarism37
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
19 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2007Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2010Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190819-9
12 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150811-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fish Pond: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fish Pond in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2012Thunderstorm WindFish Pond$20,000A brand new barn experienced significant damage due to thunderstorm winds. A large portion of the roof collapsed.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Reynolds1.8 miles15
Hillsboro2.7 miles15
Flower Hill2.7 miles15
Lovettville3.7 miles15
Lakeview4.2 miles15
Caddo5.1 miles14
Brides Hill5.8 miles15
Wheeler5.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 118307. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.