Mary, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Dadeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36853. The Survey maps it on the Camp Hill quadrangle.

Mary within Tallapoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1906 USGS Dadeville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Camp Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

79 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Mary between 1994 and 2019, burning about 774 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 23 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	26
Arson/incendiarism	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
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
6 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	HWY 50, AL
4 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160930-2
23 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190917-26
17 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tallapoosa 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
Pine Grove	1.3 miles	11
Pinnell	1.8 miles	11
Smith Crossroads (historical)	2.5 miles	10
Agricola	2.8 miles	11
Camp Hill	3.6 miles	11
Spinks	3.7 miles	12
Thornton	4.9 miles	10
Slaughters	4.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156664. 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.