Pennsylvania Camp, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Cordova census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35550. It stands on Japanese Creek. The Survey maps it on the Goodsprings quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Pennsylvania Camp within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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
1935 USGS Port Birmingham quadrangle1:48000
1938 USGS Port Birmingham quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Goodsprings quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1975 USGS Goodsprings quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

301 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 301 fires within 5 miles of Pennsylvania Camp (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,232 acres in total. None started naturally. 159 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	159
Debris and open burning	80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
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
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	1768 NEW PARRISH HWY, AL
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190904-5
30 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 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
High Level	0.6 miles	23
Goodsprings	0.8 miles	23
Drifton	1.0 miles	23
Short Camp	1.1 miles	23
Gorgas	1.7 miles	23
Bradleytown	2.5 miles	23
Aldridge	2.6 miles	23
Littletons	3.2 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1730132. 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.