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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.

Osborn within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

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.

Osborne-Jones House, County Road 45 (Washington Street), Marion, Perry County, AL
Osborne-Jones House, County Road 45 (Washington Street), Marion, Perry County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

54 since 1994

Regional 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190926-15
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO ROAD 90, AL
2 September 2006Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1995Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaVOLUNTEER
11 September 2019Debris and open burning4.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190911-1
29 August 2000Natural12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20170824-1
20 August 2019Natural31 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190820-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cleveland Mills3.3 miles12
Theo3.6 miles12
Sprott4.2 miles12
Perryville4.9 miles13
Adler5.6 miles11
Pinetucky6.1 miles11
Panhandle6.2 miles12
Radford7.2 miles12

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 OsbornAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21196524The 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.