Jesseton, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Speake-Oakville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35619. It stands on Stover Branch. The Survey maps it on the Oakville quadrangle.

Jesseton within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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.

1935 USGS Danville quadrangle1:48000
1935 USGS Danville quadrangle1:62500
1935 USGS Oakville quadrangle1:24000
1938 USGS Danville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Oakville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000
2000 USGS Oakville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

51 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Jesseton between 1993 and 2016, burning about 1,876 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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	19
Arson/incendiarism	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
5 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	ROBINSON BOTTOM
20 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	National Forests in Alabama	FREEMAN HOLLOW
20 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	BASHAM TOWER
17 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160917-1
17 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	70 acres	National Forests in Alabama	FLAT MOUNTAIN
11 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2000	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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
Speake	0.8 miles	17
Oakville	2.8 miles	17
Aldridge Grove	4.1 miles	17
Pinhook	4.4 miles	18
Five Points	4.8 miles	17
Fairfield	5.0 miles	17
Kitchens Mill	5.8 miles	17
Piney Grove	6.8 miles	18

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.

Wikidata item Q122595467

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 161829. 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.