Friendship, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Opp census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36467. The Survey maps it on the Danleys Crossroads quadrangle.

Friendship within Covington 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
1968 USGS Danleys Crossroads quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

53 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Friendship between 1994 and 2019, burning about 518 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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	18
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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
8 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2014	Natural	17 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20140902-002
19 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	2099 HWY 141, AL
25 June 2006	Natural	under an acre	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 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Friendship: 28 unknowns, 15 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
Five Points	5.7 miles	7
Eoda	6.3 miles	8
Opine	6.8 miles	8
Cedar Grove	7.4 miles	8
Rose Hill	7.7 miles	7
County Line	8.3 miles	8
Opp	8.7 miles	8
Wiggins	8.8 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 118649. 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.