Lock Five, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Greensboro South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36744. It stands on Big Prairie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Casemore quadrangle. It stands 92 feet above sea level.

Lock Five within Hale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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 Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Casemore quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Lock Five between 1995 and 2020, burning about 175 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
21 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO RD 73 & 35, AL
4 June 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 June 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200630-1
30 June 2007	Natural	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale 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
Arcola	2.4 miles	12
Casemore	2.8 miles	12
Gilmore Quarters	4.0 miles	11
Oak Grove	4.0 miles	12
Port Royal	4.1 miles	10
Cedarville	4.1 miles	12
Millwood	5.4 miles	11
Prairieville	5.5 miles	12

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.

Wikipedia article on Lock Five	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21196475	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 121938. 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.