Goat Ranch, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Lynn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35575. It lies near Bald Rock. The Survey maps it on the Gold Mine quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Goat Ranch within Winston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Gold Mine quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

81 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Goat Ranch (historical) between 1995 and 2017, burning about 932 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 29 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	29
Debris and open burning	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20140923-001
22 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	55 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winston 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
Natural Bridge	2.0 miles	11
Larissa (historical)	2.1 miles	11
Glen Mary	3.5 miles	11
German Crossing	3.6 miles	11
High Point	4.1 miles	11
Lynn	4.6 miles	11
Farriss (historical)	4.6 miles	11
Black Swamp (historical)	4.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2680854. 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.