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Macedonia, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Mosses census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36761. The Survey maps it on the Ridgeville quadrangle.

Macedonia within Lowndes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

Fires near this place

35 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Macedonia between 1994 and 2020, burning about 389 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20130918-003
19 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200509-6
6 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200506-27
30 May 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 May 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionWALLER RD, AL
13 May 2000Smoking5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Palmyra2.7 miles8
Braggs4.0 miles11
Clover Hill5.4 miles8
Fostoria6.6 miles11
Mount Willing7.2 miles9
Farmersville7.5 miles11
Lum9.6 miles9
Gordonville12.0 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156645. 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.