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Mount Zion, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Roanoke census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36274. It stands on Liles Branch. The Survey maps it on the Roanoke West quadrangle.

Mount Zion within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

138 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Mount Zion between 1995 and 2019, burning about 1,138 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 27 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 burning62
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
9 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 237, AL
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-29
20 September 2010Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2011Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission327 CR 861, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph 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
High Pine1.6 miles11
Peavy2.0 miles11
Pooles Crossroad2.5 miles11
Roanoke2.7 miles11
Dickert2.9 miles11
Broughton3.5 miles11
Mount Olive3.8 miles11
Concord4.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 140242. 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.