Five Points, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Rose Hill-Gantt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36028. The Survey maps it on the Dozier quadrangle.

Five Points within Covington 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
1971 USGS Dozier quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

66 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Five Points between 1994 and 2020, burning about 590 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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	22
Arson/incendiarism	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
21 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2000	Natural	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 June 2006	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 June 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	24 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 June 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Covington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 44 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Five Points: 24 unknowns, 20 occurrences. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Covington 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
Rose Hill	2.0 miles	7
Eoda	4.6 miles	8
Antioch	5.7 miles	8
Friendship	5.7 miles	8
Cedar Grove	6.3 miles	8
Coldwater	6.4 miles	8
Harmony	6.9 miles	8
Straughn	7.1 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 118331. 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.