Fort Dale, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Forest Home census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36037. The Survey maps it on the Fort Dale quadrangle.

Fort Dale within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 Fort Dale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Fort Dale Cemetery, Grave Houses, State Highway 185, Greenville, Butler County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Leroy Beeland House, 504 Fort Dale Road, Greenville, Butler County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

100 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Fort Dale between 1994 and 2020, burning about 539 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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	31
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	12
Smoking	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
8 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170925-2
25 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	I-65 MM 126, AL
24 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20120924-001
18 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200806-3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Fort Dale: 13 occurrences, 13 unknowns, 1 past producer. 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 Butler 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
Searcy	3.2 miles	8
Spring Hill	4.6 miles	8
Manningham	4.7 miles	8
Greenville	4.8 miles	8
Liberty	5.1 miles	8
Reddock Springs	5.1 miles	8
Mashville	8.7 miles	8
Daisy	9.2 miles	7

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 Q122562192

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 156365. 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.