Fort Deposit, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Grant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35747. It lies near Caney Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Mount Carmel quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Fort Deposit within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 24 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.

1885 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1888 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1936 USGS Mt Carmel quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Mt Carmel quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Mt Carmel quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Mt Carmel quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

63 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Fort Deposit (historical) between 1994 and 2017, burning about 1,022 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 25 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	25
Debris and open burning	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	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
22 September 2015	Other causes	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20150922-002
15 September 2011	Smoking	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	HWY 431 S, AL
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	165 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	60 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2008	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	BISHOP MTN, AL
17 June 2007	Natural	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 June 2004	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 Marshall 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
Holiday Shores	1.2 miles	24
Cottonville	1.3 miles	24
Manchester	1.8 miles	24
Johnson (historical)	2.0 miles	24
Pine Shores	2.8 miles	24
Shady Acres	2.9 miles	24
Upton (historical)	3.1 miles	22
Honeycomb Park	3.2 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 139381. 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.