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Mount Willing, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fort Deposit census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36032. The Survey maps it on the Mount Willing quadrangle.

Mount Willing within Lowndes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

56 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Mount Willing between 1994 and 2020, burning about 971 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
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
22 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120922-001
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20130918-003
6 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120706-001
4 July 2000Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 July 2000Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 2006Natural565 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionLOWNDES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes 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
Lum2.7 miles9
Clover Hill4.3 miles8
Braggs5.0 miles11
Palmyra5.1 miles8
Beechwood5.1 miles9
Gordonville6.4 miles9
Fostoria7.1 miles11
Macedonia7.2 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 123417. 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.