BlockNew Wakefield, Alabama
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Wagarville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36585. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the McIntosh quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1943 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Mc Intosh quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
111 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of New Wakefield between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,400 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 41 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 41 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Debris and open burning | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 August 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 July 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 70 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 July 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 July 1994 | Debris and open burning | 45 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Q122539000 | 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 166081. 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.