Melton, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Sawyerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36776. The Survey maps it on the Melton quadrangle.

Melton within Hale County

On record in Melton

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.

McGehee-Stringfellow Houselisted 1980 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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 Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Melton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

93 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Melton between 1995 and 2020, burning about 378 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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	47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	5
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2005	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20140924-002
19 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale 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
Sawyerville	2.6 miles	9
Greensboro	5.2 miles	9
Wedgeworth	6.3 miles	14
Millwood	6.5 miles	11
New Prospect	7.4 miles	9
Port Royal	7.6 miles	10
Evansville	7.7 miles	14
Rosemary	8.6 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156698. 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.