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Macedonia, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Manchester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35578. It stands on Home Creek. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle.

Macedonia within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

189 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Macedonia between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,709 acres in total. None started naturally. 69 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/incendiarism69
Debris and open burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use4
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.7 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burning52 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-16
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2014Arson/incendiarism19 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140923-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker 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
Lupton1.6 miles18
Edgil2.5 miles18
Thach2.7 miles18
Marigold2.7 miles18
Saragossa3.2 miles18
Rosehill3.2 miles18
Manchester4.1 miles18
Prospect4.2 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 162325. 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.