Forest, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Ethelsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35461. It stands on Little Magby Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Hope quadrangle.

Forest within Pickens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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 West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1963 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1987 USGS New Hope quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Forest between 1992 and 2019, burning about 609 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 36 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	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Debris and open burning	26
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	2
Smoking	2

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
8 September 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Mississippi Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	48 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20140929-001
29 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens 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
Stafford	3.5 miles	12
Liberty	5.7 miles	12
Ethelsville	6.1 miles	12
Macedonia	7.2 miles	12
Delma	8.7 miles	12
Shaw	9.7 miles	12
Pine Grove	10.2 miles	11
McShan	10.4 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 135520. 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.