Millville, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the York census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36907. The Survey maps it on the Boyd quadrangle.

Millville within Sumter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 Meridian quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Boyd quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS De Kalb quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

34 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Millville between 1995 and 2018, burning about 1,702 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Debris and open burning	11
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Mississippi Forestry Commission	07520140906001
25 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20150925-005
25 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	85 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2000	Natural	120 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2000	Natural	220 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2000	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Millville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Bloating Material. 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
	Livingston	Bloating Material	Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Sumter 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
York	3.5 miles	8
Dove	3.8 miles	8
Williams	5.5 miles	8
Payneville	6.0 miles	8
Hixon	6.0 miles	13
Boyd	6.6 miles	8
Scratch Hill	6.8 miles	8
Cuba	7.2 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 122852. 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.