BlockIntercourse, Alabama
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the York census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36925. The Survey maps it on the Bellamy quadrangle. It stands 351 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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 Bellamy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
34 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Intercourse between 1994 and 2020, burning about 631 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 1995 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 July 2012 | Natural | 24 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20120708-001 |
| 22 July 2000 | Natural | 220 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 July 2000 | Smoking | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 June 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 433 SHELTON ROAD, AL |
| 25 May 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 May 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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.
| Wikipedia article on Intercourse | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6045960 | 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 151860. 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.