BlockBefore

Pearson, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Big Sandy-Duncanville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35456. The Survey maps it on the Pearson quadrangle.

Pearson within Tuscaloosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

111 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Pearson between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,291 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 41 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/incendiarism41
Debris and open burning26
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural6
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionEOLINE, AL
3 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 82 CENTREVILLE, AL
27 September 2000Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-9
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined413 acresNational Forests in AlabamaOK 745
17 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20130917-002
15 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pearson: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pearson in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2016Thunderstorm WindPearson-Trees uprooted and on houses in the Northwood Lake Subdivision. Power lines downed near Union Chapel Road.

Every storm recorded in Tuscaloosa 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
Hagler1.3 miles20
Duncanville7.0 miles20
Coaling9.3 miles19
Dudley9.4 miles19
Judson Park10.3 miles19
Cedar Cove10.4 miles19
Monticello Estates10.6 miles20
Grimes10.6 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 160352. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.