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Good Springs, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Salem census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35610. It lies near Hickory Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Union Hill quadrangle. It stands 787 feet above sea level.

Good Springs within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

Fires near this place

49 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Good Springs between 1994 and 2019, burning about 259 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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 burning23
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180904-4
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2007Debris and open burning3.5 acresTennessee Division of ForestryFORK OF THE ROAD
2 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160902-3
16 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ridgway Mill0.8 miles14
Union Hill2.1 miles14
Cherry Grove2.3 miles14
Mount Rozell3.0 miles14
Scarce Grease3.6 miles14
Lester3.7 miles14
Salem4.2 miles15
Pleasant Grove5.6 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on Good SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5582964The 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 151794. 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.