Leon, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Brantley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36028. The Survey maps it on the Leon quadrangle.

Leon within Crenshaw 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 Leon quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

63 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Leon between 1994 and 2019, burning about 414 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined	25
Debris and open burning	23
Recreation and ceremony	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190707-4
30 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20150730-003
8 May 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 May 2000	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crenshaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Leon: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
	Unnamed Deposit	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Crenshaw 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
Merrill Mill	2.5 miles	7
New Hope	2.9 miles	7
Mulberry	3.4 miles	7
Theba	4.7 miles	7
Dozier	4.8 miles	7
Searight	6.0 miles	8
Brantley	7.4 miles	7
Weed Crossroad	9.4 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156600. 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.