Pendley, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Oakman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35546. It stands on Erie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Berry quadrangle.

Pendley within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Berry quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

195 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 195 fires within 5 miles of Pendley between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,403 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 108 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	108
Debris and open burning	55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	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 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	24 acres	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
20 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

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
West Corona	1.8 miles	17
Lockhart (historical)	2.4 miles	17
Corona	2.8 miles	17
Patton	3.8 miles	17
Hayes Crossing	4.6 miles	17
Key Hill	4.8 miles	17
Coal Valley	5.0 miles	17
Stephenson Crossing	5.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122597682

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 156869. 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.