Manistee, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Frisco City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36445. The Survey maps it on the Frisco City quadrangle. It stands 167 feet above sea level.

Manistee within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Frisco City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Atmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

62 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Manistee between 1994 and 2020, burning about 384 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
29 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170929-1
29 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 July 1995	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 July 2006	Natural	128 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NORTH CLARK
16 July 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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
Frisco City	5.0 miles	9
Perdue Hill	5.0 miles	8
Megargel	5.5 miles	9
Claiborne	6.9 miles	7
Mexia	7.2 miles	8
Mexia Crossing	7.3 miles	8
Mexboro	7.3 miles	8
Homewood	7.4 miles	8

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.

Wikipedia article on Manistee	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17108744	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 156652. 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.