Indian Springs, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Lisman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36922. The Survey maps it on the Whitfield quadrangle.

Indian Springs within Choctaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 Meridian quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Whitfield quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

60 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Indian Springs between 1994 and 2018, burning about 569 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	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Arson/incendiarism	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	859 MARZETTA ROAD, AL
31 August 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1995	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 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 Choctaw 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
Deas	1.6 miles	8
Pelham	2.1 miles	8
Edna	2.8 miles	8
Robjohn	3.0 miles	9
Choctaw City	3.0 miles	8
Jachin	3.9 miles	9
Pennington	3.9 miles	8
Naheola	4.2 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156511. 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.