Marietta, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the East Escambia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36420. It stands on Grab Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Damascus quadrangle.

Marietta within Escambia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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
1982 USGS Damascus quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Marietta between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,982 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 19 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	20
Arson/incendiarism	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
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
6 September 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	17 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	37 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia 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
Dixie	3.1 miles	9
Damascus	4.8 miles	7
Boykin	5.2 miles	7
Parker Springs	6.2 miles	7
Roberts	7.2 miles	7
Bradley	7.9 miles	8
Rock Creek	9.2 miles	7
Rock Hill	11.9 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 163103. 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.