Incline, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the New Hope census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35803. It lies near Wallace Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Farley quadrangle.

Incline within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Farley quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Farley quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Farley 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
1964 USGS Farley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Incline between 1994 and 2019, burning about 512 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	1
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
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180903-6
26 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190926-7
22 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1995	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190912-15

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Incline: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Dixie Dredge No.8	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	General Shale Products Co. Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Madison 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
Hobbs Island	0.8 miles	23
Norton	1.9 miles	23
Burrows	2.9 miles	23
Whitesburg	3.7 miles	23
Elon	4.0 miles	22
Farley	4.9 miles	23
Redstone Park	5.1 miles	23
Green Cove Meadows	5.2 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 147008. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.