Humpton, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Grant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35747. It sits by Whittaker Narrows. The Survey maps it on the Grant quadrangle.

Humpton within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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.

1888 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1936 USGS Grant quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Grant quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1950 USGS Grant quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Humpton between 1994 and 2017, burning about 371 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160930-4
30 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	4.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160930-7
14 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	27 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	729 MILL ROAD, AL
5 April 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall 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
Keel (historical)	2.1 miles	23
Woodall Place	2.5 miles	23
Grant	3.0 miles	23
Bucksnort	3.1 miles	23
Rocky Ridge	3.7 miles	23
Honeycomb Park	4.9 miles	24
Campbell Mill	5.0 miles	23
Shady Acres	5.4 miles	24

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 Q122596220

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 156508. 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.