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Half Chance, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Linden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36748. It stands on Sandy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Thomaston West quadrangle. It stands 184 feet above sea level.

Half Chance within Marengo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

55 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Half Chance between 1994 and 2019, burning about 4,661 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning18
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190929-10
21 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140920-001
20 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance187 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionGULF STATES RAILROAD FIRE
15 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined4,000 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCOUNTY LINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo 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
Hugo3.1 miles10
Linden3.8 miles12
Providence4.0 miles12
Dayton5.8 miles10
Thomaston5.9 miles10
Crenshaw (historical)5.9 miles9
Calvary6.2 miles9
Octagon6.8 miles9

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 Half ChanceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5641658The 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 156445. 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.