McCainville, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Livingston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35470. It stands on Cockerell Branch. The Survey maps it on the Epes West quadrangle.

McCainville within Sumter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1929 USGS Epes quadrangle1:48000
1932 USGS Epes quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Epes West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS De Kalb quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of McCainville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 118 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	2
Natural	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
30 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20130916-001
8 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190729-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter 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
Parker	2.7 miles	13
Sumterville	4.3 miles	13
Livingston	5.0 miles	13
Boyd	5.3 miles	8
Epes	5.4 miles	13
Sledge	6.0 miles	8
Bethel (historical)	6.3 miles	8
Bluffport	6.6 miles	13

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 Q122558419

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 156675. 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.