Glen Oaks, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Oakland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35633. It lies near White Bottoms. The Survey maps it on the Sinking Creek quadrangle.

Glen Oaks within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1924 USGS Gravelly Springs quadrangle1:62500
1924 USGS Gravelly Springs quadrangle1:48000
1926 USGS Gravelly Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Sinking Creek quadrangle1:24000, 4 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
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

224 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Glen Oaks between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,668 acres in total. None started naturally. 94 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	94
Debris and open burning	73
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Smoking	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20130903-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lauderdale 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
Oakland	0.5 miles	18
New Hope	1.8 miles	18
Lovelace Crossroads	2.2 miles	18
Kimbrough Crossroads	2.2 miles	18
McGee Town	2.5 miles	19
Glendale Estates	3.1 miles	19
Central Heights	3.2 miles	19
Green Tree (historical)	3.3 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 145199. 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.