Lovettville, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35643. It stands on Prairie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle.

Lovettville within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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 Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

190 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Lovettville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 3,646 acres in total. None started naturally. 107 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	107
Debris and open burning	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	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
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160927-8
23 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20140919-001
19 September 2003	Railroad operations and maintenance	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	45 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1999	Smoking	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Hillsboro	1.2 miles	15
Wheeler	2.1 miles	15
Reynolds	2.3 miles	15
Brides Hill	2.3 miles	15
Flower Hill	3.6 miles	15
Fish Pond	3.7 miles	15
Jerusalem	4.0 miles	15
Terry Heights	4.2 miles	14

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.

Wikidata item Q122563688

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 136785. 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.