Lane Springs, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cherokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35616. It lies near Sellers Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Cherokee quadrangle.

Lane Springs within Colbert County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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 Cherokee quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Cherokee quadrangle1:24000, 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
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

82 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Lane Springs between 1994 and 2020, burning about 745 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 36 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	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Debris and open burning	14
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2002	Arson/incendiarism	35 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	5.3 acres	Natchez Trace Parkway	CHUCKWAGON COMPLEX
24 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160916-1
12 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Natchez Trace Parkway	FOSSICK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colbert 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
Doubleheads Village (historical)	1.8 miles	19
Georgetown	1.8 miles	19
Mhoontown	2.0 miles	19
Ingleton (historical)	3.7 miles	19
Walker (historical)	4.6 miles	19
Chisca	5.1 miles	19
Caryton (historical)	5.2 miles	19
Cherokee	5.3 miles	19

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 Q122564894

The 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 151986. 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.