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Napier Field, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Newton-Midland City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36303. The Survey maps it on the Midland City quadrangle. 409 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Napier Field within Dale County

Population over time

3 figures

Napier Field grew from 404 to 409 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000404
2010354-50 (-12%)
2020409+55 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Napier Field between 1995 and 2020, burning about 122 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
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
2 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140902-001
9 August 2020Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200809-6
5 June 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 June 2008Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 73, AL
4 May 2000Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 May 2011Equipment and vehicle use40 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionKELLY AVENUE, AL
25 May 2012Other causes1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20120525-002
24 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140524-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dale County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Napier Field: 4 producers, 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
231 North QuarrySand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Couch Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gray QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Roy J. Lingo Sand Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Dale 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
Grimes0.8 miles8
Midland City2.1 miles8
Sylvan Grove2.7 miles8
Pinckard5.2 miles14
Lewis6.6 miles8
Browns Crossroad8.0 miles13
Newton8.1 miles14
Waterford8.2 miles14

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 Napier FieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66374The 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 123635. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.