Paradise Shores, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35611. It stands on Poplar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle.

Paradise Shores within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1936 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

78 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Paradise Shores between 1994 and 2019, burning about 879 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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	29
Arson/incendiarism	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	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
24 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180922-6
16 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190916-8
13 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2006	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2010	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone 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
Poplar Point	0.6 miles	15
Lawngate	2.0 miles	15
Ripley	2.8 miles	15
Lawson	3.1 miles	15
Beechwood Acres	3.4 miles	15
Lazy Living Acres	3.7 miles	15
Proctor	3.9 miles	15
Dogwood	4.8 miles	15

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.

Wikidata item Q122569795

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 124426. 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.