Lumbull, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Bear Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35543. It stands on Shirley Branch. The Survey maps it on the Phil Campbell quadrangle.

Lumbull within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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 Phil Campbell quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Phil Campbell quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1947 USGS Phil Campbell 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
1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

142 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Lumbull between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,345 acres in total. None started naturally. 67 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	67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	39
Debris and open burning	29
Recreation and ceremony	3
Other causes	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
5 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2010	Other causes	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200921-3
2 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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
Goddard	1.5 miles	12
Allens Factory	1.9 miles	14
Bear Creek	2.2 miles	14
Tessner	3.1 miles	14
Fairview	3.1 miles	14
Hackleburg	5.4 miles	14
South Haleyville	5.9 miles	12
Brinn	6.9 miles	11

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 Q122596547

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 156639. 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.