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Palmyra, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Henderson-Spring Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36035. It stands on Dolton Branch. The Survey maps it on the Goshen quadrangle.

Palmyra within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

Fires near this place

65 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Palmyra between 1994 and 2020, burning about 462 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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 burning25
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-4
10 September 2007Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150810-003
5 June 2007Natural7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 1996Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 June 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionHENDERSON LN, AL
9 May 2018Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180509-7

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 79 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 79 workings within 5 miles of Palmyra: 42 unknowns, 31 past producers, 3 prospects, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pik 7 Clay ProspectClayProspect
O D Warren ProspectIronProspect
O L Bryan ProspectIronProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Pleasant Ridge1.5 miles8
Baltic1.7 miles8
Henderson2.4 miles8
Sanders Hill2.6 miles8
Dogwood Acres3.2 miles8
Centre Ridge (historical)3.6 miles11
Spring Hill3.9 miles11
Little Oak4.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 139900. 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.