Olney, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Aliceville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35466. The Survey maps it on the Cunningham quadrangle. It stands 322 feet above sea level.

Olney within Pickens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Cunningham quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Olney between 1994 and 2020, burning about 268 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
28 September 2006	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1998	Smoking	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2019	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190816-8
15 August 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20140716-001
26 June 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 May 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200511-4
26 April 2017	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170426-5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Olney: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Mcnath	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Pickens 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
Hickory	2.0 miles	11
Cunningham	4.3 miles	11
Stevens	4.4 miles	11
Benevola	4.5 miles	10
Dillburg	4.9 miles	11
Beasley	5.9 miles	11
Bridgeville	6.0 miles	12
Aliceville	6.0 miles	11

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.

Wikipedia article on Olney	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17108820	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 156837. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.