Liberty, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36037. The Survey maps it on the Greenville West quadrangle.

Liberty within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 Greenville West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

177 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Liberty between 1994 and 2020, burning about 887 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 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	73
Equipment and vehicle use	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Arson/incendiarism	18
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Smoking	9
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2
Fireworks	1
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
3 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190928-14
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160928-29
25 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	I-65 MM 126, AL
23 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Liberty: 8 unknowns, 4 occurrences. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Butler 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
Reddock Springs	0.6 miles	8
Sand Cut	4.4 miles	8
Greenville	4.4 miles	8
Manningham	4.8 miles	8
Wald	5.0 miles	8
Fort Dale	5.1 miles	8
Shacklesville	6.9 miles	7
Bolling	6.9 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 152031. 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.