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McGee Town, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Oakland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35633. It lies near White Bottoms. The Survey maps it on the Florence quadrangle.

McGee Town within Lauderdale County

On record in McGee Town

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

Fires near this place

220 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of McGee Town between 1997 and 2019, burning about 812 acres in total. None started naturally. 76 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 burning82
Arson/incendiarism76
Equipment and vehicle use18
Smoking17
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use30 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20130903-001

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lovelace Crossroads0.8 miles18
Glendale Estates1.2 miles19
Mansion View1.3 miles19
Cypress Forest1.3 miles19
Kimbrough Crossroads1.9 miles18
Briarcliff2.2 miles19
Glen Oaks2.5 miles18
Cypress Heights2.6 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 122547. 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.