Peters, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Town Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35951. It stands on Little Shoal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Painter quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Peters within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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.

1885 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1888 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1936 USGS Painter quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Painter quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Painter 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
1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

98 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Peters (historical) between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,039 acres in total. None started naturally. 28 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	35
Arson/incendiarism	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	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 2005	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160907-7
6 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall 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
Asbury	1.0 miles	23
Jink (historical)	1.8 miles	22
Martling	2.7 miles	24
Pendergrass	2.8 miles	22
Poplar Springs	3.6 miles	23
Little New York	4.0 miles	23
Hustleville	4.6 miles	24
McVille	5.5 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 139459. 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.