Letson Settlement, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hatton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35650. It lies near Sinking Creek Hill. The Survey maps it on the Masterson Mill quadrangle.

Letson Settlement within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1936 USGS Masterson quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Masterson quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Masterson quadrangle1:24000
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

303 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 303 fires within 5 miles of Letson Settlement between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,760 acres in total. None started naturally. 156 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	156
Debris and open burning	88
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Recreation and ceremony	21
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Other causes	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	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160927-8
26 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20150923-002
23 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	17 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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
Mountain Home	1.4 miles	13
Longtown	1.6 miles	13
Masterson Mill	2.7 miles	13
Mount Moriah	2.8 miles	13
Chalybeate Springs	3.5 miles	14
Loosier	4.2 miles	13
Terrytown	4.3 miles	13
Harmony	4.7 miles	14

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 Q122554262

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 156603. 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.