BlockNorman, Alabama
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Hamburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36756. The Survey maps it on the Marion South quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Marion South quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
169 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Norman between 1994 and 2020, burning about 640 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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 | 70 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 27 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20200908-1 |
| 8 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2006 | Natural | 129 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2000 | Smoking | 3.0 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156799. 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.