Patton, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Oakman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35579. It lies in Patton Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Oakman quadrangle.

Patton within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1893 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1949 USGS Oakman quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Oakman quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

208 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Patton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,440 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 110 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
Arson/incendiarism	110
Debris and open burning	57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
6 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160906-9
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Smoking	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20130920-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker 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
Hayes Crossing	0.9 miles	17
Corona	0.9 miles	17
Lockhart (historical)	1.5 miles	17
Stephenson Crossing	2.1 miles	17
Key Hill	2.1 miles	17
West Corona	2.4 miles	17
Marietta	3.2 miles	17
Coal Valley	3.3 miles	17

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 Patton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85792458	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 152855. 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.