Loosier, 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 35672. It stands on Bear Branch. The Survey maps it on the Masterson Mill quadrangle. It stands 748 feet above sea level.

Loosier 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

198 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Loosier between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,529 acres in total. None started naturally. 91 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	91
Debris and open burning	74
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160927-3
26 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	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
21 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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 Loosier: 1 unknown. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hyde Mountain	Iron	Unknown

Every working 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
Hatton	2.5 miles	15
Mount Moriah	3.1 miles	13
Ne Smith	3.5 miles	15
Terrytown	3.9 miles	13
Letson Settlement	4.2 miles	13
Oak Grove	4.4 miles	15
Longtown	5.1 miles	13
Masterson Mill	5.1 miles	13

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 Loosier	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058495	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 136783. 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.