Lakeview, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Falco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36420. It stands on Juniper Creek. The Survey maps it on the Libertyville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Lakeview within Covington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Libertyville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Lakeview (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 494 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 9 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	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
10 September 2019	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190910-6
10 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 August 2007	Debris and open burning	2.7 acres	National Forests in Alabama	BROKE DOWN TRACTOR
5 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190705-8
4 July 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	National Forests in Alabama	LEE
19 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	National Forests in Alabama	BULLET FIRE
16 July 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	National Forests in Alabama	BBQ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Covington 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
Red Oak	2.7 miles	7
Stanley	3.5 miles	7
Shiloh	3.6 miles	7
Carolina	5.3 miles	8
Libertyville	5.5 miles	7
Huckaville	7.4 miles	7
Beck	7.7 miles	8
Beda	9.2 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 161637. 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.