Old White Hall, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Thomaston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36783. It stands on Poplar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Thomaston East quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Old White Hall within Marengo County

On record in Old White Hall

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Patrick Farrish Houselisted 2000 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Thomaston East quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Old White Hall (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 541 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
17 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2006	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2000	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	28 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20120704-002
28 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo 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
Thomaston	0.9 miles	10
Wootens (historical)	1.8 miles	9
Crenshaw (historical)	2.5 miles	9
Kings (historical)	2.7 miles	9
Consul	3.6 miles	9
Hugo	4.3 miles	10
McKinley	4.3 miles	9
Dayton	6.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1730261. 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.