Milton, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Billingsley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36749. It stands on Motley Branch. The Survey maps it on the Milton quadrangle.

Milton within Autauga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1891 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Plantersville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1975 USGS Plantersville SE quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Milton quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

101 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Milton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 656 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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
Arson/incendiarism	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	2

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
26 September 2000	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20120914-001
10 September 2019	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190910-5
6 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	4.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 1995	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bonita	1.5 miles	17
Evergreen	2.7 miles	17
Winslow	3.5 miles	17
Fremont	4.7 miles	17
Jones	5.1 miles	17
Bethel Grove	5.3 miles	16
Beth Grove (historical)	5.7 miles	16
Independence	6.1 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156716. 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.