Mount Zion, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Crossville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35957. The Survey maps it on the Rodentown quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Mount Zion within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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.

1885 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1888 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1936 USGS Rodentown quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Rodentown quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

74 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Mount Zion (historical) between 1994 and 2019, burning about 392 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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	40
Arson/incendiarism	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160908-3
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190930-23
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190928-8
25 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	46 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20150923-001
18 September 2010	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160916-14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb 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
Arona	1.0 miles	22
Liberty	2.2 miles	22
Rains (historical)	3.6 miles	22
Rodentown	4.2 miles	22
Kilpatrick	4.2 miles	22
Lathamville	5.4 miles	22
Marcus (historical)	5.6 miles	20
Painter	7.3 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 150726. 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.