Panhandle, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It lies in ZIP code area 36701. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Buck Creek quadrangle.

Panhandle 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.

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 Buck Creek quadrangle1:24000
1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Buck Creek quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

35 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Panhandle between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,427 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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
Arson/incendiarism	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
2 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28 acres	National Forests in Alabama	GLEN BARNETT
2 September 1995	Natural	3.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	FRITH BRANCH #2
19 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	VOLUNTEER
16 September 2016	Natural	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160916-13
11 September 2019	Debris and open burning	4.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190911-1
19 August 2002	Natural	7.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	BUSTED TREE
11 July 2001	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	National Forests in Alabama	RIDGE
6 June 2015	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20150606-002

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pinetucky	5.9 miles	11
Osborn	6.2 miles	12
Perryville	6.7 miles	13
Oakmulgee	7.7 miles	11
Theo	9.0 miles	12
Adler	9.2 miles	11
Cleveland Mills	9.3 miles	12
Bethlehem	9.4 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156854. 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.