Morgan Springs, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Heiberger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36756. The Survey maps it on the Morgan Springs quadrangle. It stands 384 feet above sea level.

Morgan Springs within Perry County

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
1979 USGS Morgan Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

70 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Morgan Springs between 1994 and 2020, burning about 823 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1995	Smoking	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2008	Natural	250 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	WAREHOUSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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
North Perry	2.8 miles	11
Curbville	3.5 miles	11
Brush Creek	4.1 miles	11
Folsom	4.4 miles	10
Ironville	5.4 miles	11
Heiberger	6.9 miles	11
Jericho	7.7 miles	11
Zimmerman	9.1 miles	9

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.

Wikipedia article on Morgan Springs	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21196507	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 155156. 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.