McWilliams, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pine Apple census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36768. The Survey maps it on the McWilliams quadrangle. It stands 305 feet above sea level.

McWilliams within Wilcox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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
1981 USGS Mc Williams quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of McWilliams between 1994 and 2020, burning about 390 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	1
Other causes	1
Smoking	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 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	1080 CO. RD. 155, AL
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	111 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 July 2019	Natural	22 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190701-6
20 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilcox 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
Schuster	3.4 miles	7
Rutthven	3.7 miles	7
Caledonia	4.1 miles	7
Watsonville	4.5 miles	7
Pine Apple	6.2 miles	7
Oak Hill	6.2 miles	7
Neenah	7.3 miles	7
Allenton	7.6 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 McWilliams	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6802780	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 122607. 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.