McRae, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Florala census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36442. It stands on Moccasin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Florala quadrangle. It stands 230 feet above sea level.

McRae within Covington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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
1971 USGS Florala quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of McRae between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,473 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 27 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
Arson/incendiarism	27
Debris and open burning	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Recreation and ceremony	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
22 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190922-5
9 June 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
8 June 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 June 2000	Arson/incendiarism	140 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	FLORALA
3 June 2006	Natural	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 June 2016	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160624-2
23 June 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 June 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	9.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Covington County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of McRae: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cov 1 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
	Marianna and Ocala Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Covington 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
Stedman	2.4 miles	8
Chapel Hill	2.6 miles	7
Howells	2.8 miles	7
Florala	5.1 miles	8
Lockhart	5.7 miles	8
Huckaville	8.3 miles	7
Green Bay	8.4 miles	7
Blue Springs	10.7 miles	7

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.

Wikipedia article on McRae	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058512	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 156688. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.