North Walter, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Holly Pond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35055. It stands on Copperas Branch. The Survey maps it on the Simcoe quadrangle.

North Walter within Cullman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1888 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Simcoe quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

39 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of North Walter between 1997 and 2019, burning about 254 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
30 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160920-3
15 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160915-8
12 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NER-20140806-001
5 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NER-20140829-002
23 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	401 CO RD 744, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman 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
Walter	0.9 miles	19
Baileytown	2.5 miles	17
Riverside	2.6 miles	19
Welti	3.1 miles	17
Center Hill	3.7 miles	19
Walkers Corner	4.5 miles	17
Holly Pond	4.6 miles	19
Berlin	4.7 miles	17

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 Q122589032

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 124019. 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.