Homewood, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Uriah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36480. It stands on Sand Creek. The Survey maps it on the Uriah West quadrangle.

Homewood within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Uriah West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Atmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

70 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Homewood between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,482 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 9 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	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
28 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2019	Natural	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190910-1
31 August 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2010	Natural	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2006	Natural	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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
Grove Hill	3.2 miles	7
Eliska	4.6 miles	8
Jeddo	5.2 miles	8
Palmers Crossroads	5.5 miles	8
Mount Pleasant	5.7 miles	8
Mineola	6.5 miles	8
Uriah	6.8 miles	8
Chrysler	7.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156490. 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.