Masonville, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Killen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35645. It stands on Brush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Killen quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Masonville within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1914 USGS Muscle Shoals quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Muscle Shoals quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Killen quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Killen quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Killen quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

134 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Masonville (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 521 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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	64
Arson/incendiarism	33
Recreation and ceremony	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Smoking	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4

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
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190915-6
15 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	9.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lauderdale 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
East Killen	0.3 miles	18
Killen	0.4 miles	18
Lock Six	1.1 miles	18
Shoals Acres	1.3 miles	18
Lakeside Acres	1.7 miles	18
Hideaway Hills	1.7 miles	18
Kingman (historical)	1.8 miles	18
Holloway	1.9 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 142097. 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.