Lewis, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Banks-Josie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36081. It stands on Dunns Branch. The Survey maps it on the Needmore quadrangle.

Lewis within Pike 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 Needmore quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Troy quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

51 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Lewis between 1994 and 2020, burning about 306 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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	20
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200808-5
3 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 1997	Natural	22 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO RD 7718, AL
21 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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 Lewis: 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. 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
	Pik 5 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
	Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Jonesville	1.2 miles	7
Ezell	2.7 miles	8
Catalpa	2.8 miles	8
Dunn	2.9 miles	8
Linwood	3.0 miles	8
Needmore	3.2 miles	7
Pleasant Hill	3.8 miles	8
Sandfield	4.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 139883. 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.