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Melmar, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Prattville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36067. It stands on Breakfast Creek. The Survey maps it on the Prattville quadrangle.

Melmar within Autauga County

On record in Melmar

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

9 surveys from 18 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

197 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 197 fires within 5 miles of Melmar between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,041 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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 burning90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Equipment and vehicle use19
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony14
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160909-13
9 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burning1.1 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Autauga 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
Whispering Pines0.3 miles18
Live Oaks0.5 miles18
Upper Kingston0.8 miles18
Pate1.1 miles13
Prattville1.9 miles18
Hunting Ridge2.0 miles18
Willowbrook2.2 miles18
Prattmont2.5 miles18

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 Q122546549The 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 147591. 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.