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Jordan, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Eclectic census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36024. The Survey maps it on the Eclectic quadrangle.

Jordan within Elmore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

Fires near this place

140 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Jordan between 1994 and 2020, burning about 656 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony21
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 2003Debris and open burning1.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Debris and open burning3.9 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1995Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 1995Natural2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cotton1.9 miles16
Falkner2.6 miles16
Kowaliga3.0 miles11
Red Hill3.4 miles11
Kid4.1 miles16
Eclectic5.1 miles16
Central5.3 miles16
Chana Creek5.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 121037. 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.