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Kent, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Goshen-Shady Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36035. The Survey maps it on the Grady quadrangle. It stands 397 feet above sea level.

Kent within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

85 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Kent between 1994 and 2020, burning about 574 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined30
Debris and open burning25
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2019Natural12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190909-12
9 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20150906-001
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20150920-001
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20130918-002
18 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140917-002
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kent: 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Briar Hill2.4 miles8
Shady Grove3.0 miles8
Olustee3.5 miles8
Ansley5.5 miles8
Curry7.0 miles8
Shellhorn7.3 miles8
Wingard8.4 miles7
Orion9.0 miles8

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 Q14679240The 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 156551. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.