New Bethel, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Littleville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35674. It lies near Keenum Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Pride quadrangle.

New Bethel within Colbert County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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.

1925 USGS Barton quadrangle1:62500
1926 USGS Barton quadrangle1:48000
1929 USGS Barton quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1936 USGS Pride quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Pride quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Pride quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

146 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of New Bethel between 1994 and 2018, burning about 799 acres in total. None started naturally. 53 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	56
Arson/incendiarism	53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	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 1998	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1998	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colbert County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of New Bethel: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Rock Asphalt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Alabama Asphaltic Limestone Company Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Rock Asphalt	Producer	1923
	Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Colbert 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
Underwood Heights	2.8 miles	18
Hawk Pride	2.9 miles	19
Bear Creek	3.2 miles	18
Sand Lick (historical)	3.3 miles	19
Flatwoods	3.5 miles	20
Lime Rock	3.7 miles	20
Crooked Oak	4.2 miles	19
Little Zion (historical)	4.4 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 132979. 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.