BlockMelborne, Alabama
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Millport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35576. The Survey maps it on the Fernbank quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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 West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Fernbank quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS West Point quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
99 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Melborne between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,406 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 34 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 | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20140929-001 |
| 29 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Q122565678 | 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 132787. 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.