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Madison Point, Alabama

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Madison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35758. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Greenbrier quadrangle.

Madison Point within Madison County

On record in Madison Point

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Madison Point between 1994 and 2016, burning about 99 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
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
20 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160914-10
12 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160816-3
12 August 2000Natural15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSUNSET BLVD, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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
Madison0.3 miles27
Maplewood0.4 miles25
Brentwood0.7 miles27
Clift Acres0.8 miles27
Crestview Estates1.2 miles27
Rolling Woods1.6 miles25
Nolan Hills1.6 miles27
Madison Highlands1.8 miles27

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 Q122565955The 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 147086. 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.