Fountain, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Peterman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36460. It stands on Holly Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mexia quadrangle.

Fountain within Monroe 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
1972 USGS Mexia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

101 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Fountain between 1994 and 2019, burning about 514 acres in total. 2 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	29
Railroad operations and maintenance	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Arson/incendiarism	11
Recreation and ceremony	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Smoking	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
9 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2017	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170904-3
25 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 Fountain: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Mon 2 Clay Prospect.	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fountain in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 funnel cloud. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2011	Funnel Cloud	Fountain	-	Trained SkyWarn spotter reported funnel cloud.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Hixon	1.8 miles	8
Old Salem	3.8 miles	8
Axle	4.2 miles	8
Scratch Ankle	4.9 miles	8
Wainwright	5.6 miles	8
Mexia	6.1 miles	8
West Monroeville	6.2 miles	8
Keith	6.2 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 118541. 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.