Osborn, Alabama
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Sprott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36756. The Survey maps it on the Sprott quadrangle. It stands 469 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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
- 1959 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Sprott quadrangle1:24000
- 1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Sprott quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
54 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Osborn between 1994 and 2019, burning about 952 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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 | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190926-15 |
| 25 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | CO ROAD 90, AL |
| 2 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | National Forests in Alabama | VOLUNTEER |
| 11 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 4.2 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190911-1 |
| 29 August 2000 | Natural | 12 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20170824-1 |
| 20 August 2019 | Natural | 31 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190820-4 |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Mills | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Theo | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Sprott | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Perryville | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Adler | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| Pinetucky | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Panhandle | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Radford | 7.2 miles | 12 |
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 Osborn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q21196524 | 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 160322. 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.







