Laurel Grove, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Clayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36053. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Andrew quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Laurel Grove within Barbour County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Mount Andrew quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Troy quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

100 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Laurel Grove (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,634 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 22 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	47
Arson/incendiarism	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
8 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.6 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190916-19
16 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2016	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160830-3
26 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	HWY 51, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barbour 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
Garmon Crossroads	2.8 miles	7
Mount Andrew	3.1 miles	7
Greens Crossroads	6.1 miles	7
Bells Crossroads	6.2 miles	7
Boot Hill	7.4 miles	7
Mount Olive (historical)	9.0 miles	8
Clayton	9.6 miles	8
Pratts	10.5 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 134798. 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.