Irvington, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35671. The Survey maps it on the Tanner quadrangle.

Irvington within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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 Tanner quadrangle1:24000
1938 USGS Tanner 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
1963 USGS Tanner 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 Irvington between 1994 and 2019, burning about 247 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	14
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	1
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 September 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20150908-001
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190930-4
19 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone 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
Sweetwater	1.1 miles	22
Whiteside	1.3 miles	22
Decatur Junction	2.4 miles	22
Harris Station	2.5 miles	22
Mooresville	2.7 miles	22
Belle Mina	2.9 miles	22
Orrville	3.2 miles	22
Murphree Place	4.3 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156516. 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.