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New West Greene, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mantua-West Greene census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35443. The Survey maps it on the Warsaw quadrangle.

New West Greene within Greene County

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

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of New West Greene between 1994 and 2019, burning about 473 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism11
Debris and open burning8
Smoking4
Other causes2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
23 September 2015Other causesunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150923-001
21 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160921-6
18 September 2000Natural211 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2010Other causes2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150829-002
16 August 2007Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene 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
West Greene2.6 miles7
Mount Hebron4.5 miles9
New Mount Hebron5.0 miles9
Ridge5.9 miles12
Pleasant Ridge6.8 miles11
Clinton7.6 miles14
Crawford Fork8.5 miles9
Lewiston10.1 miles11

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 Q122598056The 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 156789. 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.