Liberty City, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It lies in ZIP code area 36866. The Survey maps it on the Notasulga quadrangle.

Liberty City within Tallapoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1906 USGS Dadeville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Notasulga quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

68 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Liberty City between 1995 and 2019, burning about 730 acres in total. None started naturally. 25 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	25
Debris and open burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Fireworks	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
6 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2016	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160924-12
18 September 2000	Smoking	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160911-5
9 August 2007	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	22 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tallapoosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Liberty City: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
	Mac 5 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Tallapoosa 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
Reeltown	3.4 miles	11
Church Hill (historical)	4.6 miles	10
Smith	5.1 miles	11
Tallapoosa City	5.7 miles	11
Simmons Crossroads	6.1 miles	10
Carrville	6.8 miles	11
Buckville	7.4 miles	11
Thornton	8.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 121563. 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.