Joy, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Blountsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35079. It lies near Sky Ball Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Blountsville quadrangle.

Joy within Blount County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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 Cullman quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Blountsville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1975 USGS Blountsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

104 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Joy between 1994 and 2019, burning about 633 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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	48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Arson/incendiarism	13
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	26 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NER-20130927-001
24 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	BLOSSOM LANE, AL
18 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blount 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
Sky Ball	1.3 miles	19
Fowler Spring	1.6 miles	20
Gum Springs	2.7 miles	19
Pine Acres	3.3 miles	20
Chamblees Mill	3.4 miles	19
Blountsville	3.6 miles	20
Cleveland	3.6 miles	21
Five Points	3.6 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 121061. 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.