Ironville, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Heiberger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36756. The Survey maps it on the Heiberger quadrangle.

Ironville within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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 Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Heiberger quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Heiberger quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

87 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Ironville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,043 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 18 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	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Arson/incendiarism	18
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	6
Smoking	3

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
8 September 1997	Smoking	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	GEORGES
16 September 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	TRASHPILE
13 September 1997	Natural	10 acres	National Forests in Alabama	LIGHTNING #1
11 September 1995	Smoking	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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
North Perry	3.5 miles	11
Jericho	4.0 miles	11
Heiberger	4.2 miles	11
Ellards	4.5 miles	11
Morgan Springs	5.4 miles	10
Levert	6.1 miles	11
Brush Creek	6.4 miles	11
Curbville	6.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 162667. 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.