Kendell, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cloverdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35677. It stands on Cooper Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wright quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Kendell within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

1924 USGS Gravelly Springs quadrangle1:62500
1924 USGS Gravelly Springs quadrangle1:48000
1926 USGS Gravelly Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1935 USGS Wright quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Wright quadrangle1:24000, 3 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
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

199 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Kendell (historical) between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,363 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 99 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
Arson/incendiarism	99
Debris and open burning	54
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2000	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190930-21
30 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20140930-001
29 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	COUNTY ROAD 166, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lauderdale 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
Murphy Cross Roads	0.9 miles	18
Stewartville	2.1 miles	19
Dart	2.5 miles	18
Threet	3.3 miles	19
Melvin (historical)	4.0 miles	19
Cloverdale	6.4 miles	19
Gravelly Springs	6.4 miles	18
Sullivan Crossroads	6.8 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 145243. 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.