Houstontown, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Killen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35645. It stands on Dry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wheeler Dam quadrangle.

Houstontown within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1914 USGS Rogersville quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Rogersville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Wheeler Dam quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Wheeler Dam quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Wheeler Dam quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

73 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Houstontown between 1994 and 2016, burning about 249 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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	32
Arson/incendiarism	17
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
21 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

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
Beach Grove (historical)	1.6 miles	17
Lock Three	1.7 miles	17
Belleview (historical)	1.7 miles	17
Big Oak	1.9 miles	17
Marmion (historical)	2.4 miles	17
Center Star	2.6 miles	17
Aqua Vista	2.7 miles	17
Elgin	2.8 miles	17

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.

Wikidata item Q122571485

The 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 120467. 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.