Mulberry, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Isabella-Pletcher census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36006. The Survey maps it on the Billingsley quadrangle.

Mulberry within Chilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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 Billingsley quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1984 USGS Billingsley quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

153 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Mulberry between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,096 acres in total. 4 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	67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Arson/incendiarism	23
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Recreation and ceremony	9
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	8.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	27 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20120928-001
27 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	815
26 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190926-12
26 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190926-14
23 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chilton 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
Pletcher	4.2 miles	16
Pools Crossroads	5.4 miles	17
Kincheon	6.0 miles	14
Enterprise	6.9 miles	17
Fairview	7.2 miles	14
Adams	7.7 miles	16
Highland	8.8 miles	14
Parnell	10.6 miles	17

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.

Wikidata item Q65081114

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 123571. 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.