BlockGilmore Quarters, Alabama
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Greensboro South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36744. It sits by Myers Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Mason Bend quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1947 USGS Mason Bend quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Mason Bend quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
49 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Gilmore Quarters between 1994 and 2018, burning about 540 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 1997 | Smoking | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20150805-002 |
| 13 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20150813-001 |
| 3 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 July 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 July 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Royal | 1.9 miles | 10 | |
| Millwood | 2.5 miles | 11 | |
| Lock Five | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Arcola | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Cedarville | 6.0 miles | 12 | |
| Casemore | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Oak Grove | 8.0 miles | 12 | |
| Sawyerville | 8.7 miles | 9 |
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 Q122549144 | 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 118973. 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.